Literature, Gender, and the Trauma of Partition

Literature, Gender, and the Trauma of Partition
Author: Debali Mookerjea-Leonard
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 198
Release: 2017-04-07
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1317293886


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Partition occurring simultaneously with British decolonization of the Indian subcontinent led to the formation of independent India and Pakistan. While the political and communal aspects of the Partition have received some attention, its enormous personal and psychological costs have been mostly glossed over, particularly when it comes to the splitting of Bengal. The memory of this historical ordeal has been preserved in literary archives, and these archives are still being excavated. This book examines neglected narratives of the Partition of India in 1947 to study the traces left by this foundational trauma on the national- and regional-cultural imaginaries in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. To arrive at a more complex understanding of how Partition experiences of violence, migration, and displacement shaped postcolonial societies and subjectivities in South Asia, the author analyses, through novels and short stories, multiple cartographies of disorientation and anxiety in the post-Partition period. The book illuminates how contingencies of political geography cut across personal and collective histories, and how these intersections are variously marked and mediated by literature. Examining works composed in Bengali and other South Asian languages, this book seeks to broaden and complicate existing conceptions of what constitutes the Partition literary archive. A valuable addition to the growing field of Partition studies, this book will be of interest to scholars of South Asian history, gender studies, and literature.


Literature, Gender, and the Trauma of Partition
Language: en
Pages: 198
Authors: Debali Mookerjea-Leonard
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-04-07 - Publisher: Routledge

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Partition occurring simultaneously with British decolonization of the Indian subcontinent led to the formation of independent India and Pakistan. While the poli
Literature, Gender, and the Trauma of Partition
Language: en
Pages: 198
Authors: Debali Mookerjea-Leonard
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-04-07 - Publisher: Taylor & Francis

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Partition occurring simultaneously with British decolonization of the Indian subcontinent led to the formation of independent India and Pakistan. While the poli
Literature, Gender, and the Trauma of Partition
Language: en
Pages: 198
Authors: Debali Mookerjea-Leonard
Categories:
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-12-12 - Publisher: Routledge

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Partition occurring simultaneously with British decolonization of the Indian subcontinent led to the formation of independent India and Pakistan. While the poli
Unsettling Partition
Language: en
Pages: 217
Authors: Jill Didur
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006-01-01 - Publisher: University of Toronto Press

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Unsettling Partitions reinterprets the silences found in women's accounts of sectarian violence that accompanied Partition as a sign of their inability to find
The Trauma and the Triumph
Language: en
Pages: 292
Authors: Jasodhara Bagchi
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003 - Publisher: Popular Prakashan

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Drawing Upon Interviews With Women Who Were Uprooted From Old East Bengal, On Diaries, Memoirs, And Creative Literature, The Editors Lift The `Veil Of Silence`