Postmemory and the Partition of India
Learning to Remember
Published on 14. March 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
XI, 149 pages
978-3-031-43399-3 (ISBN)
Description
This book examines the memories of the Partition of India in 1947 with a focus on the generation of postmemory (those who came after it) and how partition experiences have been shared (or not) and understood. It explores the formal and narrative properties of different memory practices that have been built around the partition, and the methods of oral historians involved in collecting testimonies as part of the 1947 Berkeley partition archive.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Cham
Switzerland
Publishing group
Springer International Publishing
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
2 s/w Abbildungen
XI, 149 p. 2 illus.
Dimensions
Height: 210 mm
Width: 148 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
221 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-031-43399-3 (9783031433993)
DOI
10.1007/978-3-031-43397-9
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Book
03/2024
Palgrave Macmillan
€128.39
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Person
Shuchi Kapila
is Professor in the Department of English at Grinnell College, USA, where she teaches postcolonial literature from Africa, the Caribbean, South Asia. Her book
Educating Seeta: The Anglo-Indian Family Romance and the Poetics of Indirect Rule
was published in 2010.
Content
1 Learning to Remember.-2.Partition Postmemory .- 3.Hospitality and Loss . -4.Nostalgia..- 5.Collecting Memory.- 6.Preserving Memory.- Conclusion