Title Narrating South Asian partition : oral history, literature, cinema / Anindya Raychaudhuri

Published New York : Oxford University Press, [2019] ©2019

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Description 1 online resource Series Oxford oral history series Oxford oral history series. Contents "Wasn't it golden?": remembering the lost home -- "My other mother": separated and reconstructed families -- "This eight-year-old, he's too little": children taking back control -- "The most awful thing I watched": partition and the many meanings of violence -- "All trains stop there": the icon of the death train -- "I still dream of the Padma": changing riverscapes of partition -- "The cause": working through the memories of parition -- Conclusion: the vital importance of the word Summary "This book brings together 'private' and 'public' forms of memory narratives of the 1947 Indian/Pakistani partition, by looking at both oral history testimonies and cultural representations of partition. Raychaudhuri will compare literary, cinematic, and artistic representations of partition with a body of oral history interviews in order to look at the ways in which the events of partition are remembered, re-interpreted, and reconstructed, the themes (home, family, violence, childhood, trains, and rivers) that are recycled in the narration, and the voices that remain elided. This will be one of the very first truly interdisciplinary studies of the cultural and memorial legacy of the 1947 Indian/Pakistani partition. While there have been a number of notable studies of oral histories of partition, there has been very little which seeks to compare the 'private' testimonies with 'public' forms of memorialization"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references, filmography, and index Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed May 28, 2019) Subject Nationalism and collective memory -- India Nationalism and collective memory -- Bangladesh HISTORY -- Asia -- India & South Asia. Nationalism and collective memory Social aspects SUBJECT India -- History -- Partition, 1947 -- Personal narratives Bengal (India) -- History -- Partition, 1947 -- Personal narratives Pakistan -- History -- 20th century -- Personal narratives Bangladesh -- History -- 20th century -- Personal narratives Subject Pakistan India -- Bengal Bangladesh India Genre/Form Electronic books Personal narratives History Personal narratives. Récits personnels. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780190249779 0190249773 9780190249755 0190249757

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