Format:
1 online resource (195 pages)
ISBN:
9781000067507
Content:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of contributors -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Literature and film: an alternative archive of the Partition of India -- PART I: Historical reality: texts of response -- 1. Political mayhem and the moment of rupture: Bhisham Sahni's Tamas -- 2. Ideology of hatred and the violent making of nations: Khushwant Singh's Train to Pakistan -- 3. Partition and the shattered familiar: Bapsi Sidhwa's The Ice-Candy Man -- 4. Saadat Hasan Manto's "Toba Tek Singh": A nation split by trauma and madness -- 5. Translating trauma into sublime: Gulzar's response to Manto's "Toba Tek Singh" -- PART II: Memory and mnemonic: of homeland and homelessness -- 6. Politics of memory and the myth of homelessness: Intizar Husain's Basti -- 7. Redrawing the borders of nostalgia: A reading of Ritwik Ghatak's selected short stories -- 8. Memory of home and the impossibility of return: Reading Jibanananda Das's "I Shall Return to This Bengal" and "I Have Seen Bengal's Face" -- 9. Tracing erasure and re-mapping the memory lane: Partition movies of Ritwik Ghatak -- 10. From home to homeland: Negotiating memory and displacement in Dibyendu Palit's "Alam's Own House" -- PART III: Body politics: the woman in question -- 11. Decentrification and gendered perspectives in Partition narratives: An analysis of Garm Hava -- 12. Honour, woman's body and marginalisation: A study of Amrita Pritam's Pinjar -- 13. History versus (her)story: A study of Jyotirmoyee Devi's Epar Ganga Opar Ganga -- 14. Immanent needs, immediate solutions: Body and reconciliation in Manik Bandopadhyay's "The Final Solution" -- 15. The aporiac self: Feminine and the poetics of silence in Sabiha Sumar's Khamosh Pani.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780367143862
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780367143862
Language:
English
