| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 200 pages) |
| Contents |
Intro; Table of Contents; Introduction; Part 1: Memory and History Writing; Chapter One; Chapter Two; Chapter Three; Part 2: Gendered Memory; Chapter Four; Chapter Five; Chapter Six; Part 3: Spatial Memory and Places of Remembrance; Chapter Seven; Chapter Eight; Chapter Nine; Part 4: Politics of Representation and Memory in Film; Chapter Ten; Chapter Eleven; Chapter Twelve; Contributors; Index |
| Summary |
This volume offers a collection of essays focused upon the representation of one of the most traumatic events in the history of India--the 1947 Partition--in literature and cinematographic adaptations. The focus here is placed on various strategies of representation and different types of memory at work in the process of remembering/re-membering Partition. All these avoid the traditional Hindu vs. Muslim perspective, and analyse other sides of the same story, seen from the perspective of marginal people belonging to other religious minorities, whose stories have generally been ignored and silenc |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
HISTORY -- Asia -- India & South Asia.
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Motion pictures
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Literature
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| SUBJECT |
India -- History -- Partition, 1947.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh97003291
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India -- In literature
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India -- In motion pictures.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85064958
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| Subject |
India
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Rogobete, Daniela, editor
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Marino, Elisabetta, editor
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| ISBN |
9781527526853 |
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1527526852 |
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