Recall and Retell

List of figures vii

List of contributors viii

Acknowledgements x

Introduction: Locating Literary and Cultural Registers of Memory,

Identity, and Resistance in India 1

AMAL P MATHEWS AND ELWIN SUSAN JOHN

PART I

Recall: Shadowed and Mapped Memories 19

1 'Cryptopolitics': Memory, Landscape, Identity 21

SAHANA MUKHERJEE

2 The Rebels' Silhouette(s): Reception and Resistance in South Asia 31

RHITAMA BASAK

3 Of Translocal Memories: Remembering and Forgetting in New Town, West Bengal 44

DEBARUN SARKAR

4 Paradesi's Jewish Soul: A Tapestry of Memories Woven in Stone and Spirit 57

LAKSHMIPRIYA P SANTHOSH

PART II

Retell: Reconfigured and Reclaimed Memories 75

5 Memory as Praxis: Reconfigurations of the Home in Select Anglophone Texts from Northeast India 77

SAMRITA SINHA

6 Archives, Indigeneity, and Decolonization in Indian Children's Picture Books 90

SUDEBI GIRI AND BINAY SAWAIYAN

7 Bene Appetit: Consuming Food and Remembering Jewish Identity in the Selected Works of Esther David 109

ANANDHA LEKSHMI NAIR

8 Mythopoeic Menus from the Spice Coast: Food, Memory, and Community in Kerala 124

MEENU JOSE

Index 137