Witnessing Partition
Memory, History, Fiction
1st Edition
Published on 26. January 2010
Book
Hardback
350 pages
978-0-415-56443-4 (ISBN)
Description
This book deals with the representation of the Partition of India - the experience of trauma and violence - through fiction, literary motifs and narratives, and shows that in examining the nature of such testimony through history, cultural memory has a significant role to play.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Paper over boards
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 138 mm
Weight
530 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-415-56443-4 (9780415564434)
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Person
Tarun K Saint teaches English at Hindu College, University of Delhi.
Content
Introduction 1. Negotiating the Effects of Historical Trauma: Novels of the 1940s and 50s 2. Partition's Afterlife: Perspectives from the 1960s and 70s 3. Narrativising the 'Time of Partition': Writings since 1980 4. Short Stories about the Partition: Towards a Self-Reflexive Mode of Testimony 5. Reinventing Testimonial Fiction in the Wake of the Partition Bibliography Index