Title The Indian partition in literature and films : history, politics, and aesthetics / edited by Rini Bhattacharya Mehta and Debali Mookerjea-Leonard ; foreword by Antoinette Burton

Published London : Routledge, 2015

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Description 1 online resource Series Routledge contemporary South Asia series ; 93 Routledge contemporary South Asia series ; 93. Contents pt. 1. Surviving violence -- pt. 2. Borders and belonging -- pt. 3. History, memory, and aesthetics Summary "This book presents an examination of fictional representations, in books and films, of the 1947 Partition that led to the creation of the sovereign nation-states of India and Pakistan. While the process of representing the Partition experience through words and images began in the late 1940s, it is only in the last few decades that literary critics and film scholars have begun to analyse the work. The emerging critical scholarship on the Partition and its aftermath has deepened our understanding of the relationship between historical trauma, collective memory, and cultural processes, and this book provides critical readings of literary and cinematic texts on the impact of the Partition both in the Punjab and in Bengal. The collection assembles studies on Anglophone writings with those on the largely unexplored vernacular works, and those which have rarely found a place in discussions on the Partition. It looks at representations of women's experiences of gendered violence in the Partition riots, and how literary texts have filled in the lack of the 'human dimension' in Partition histories. The book goes on to highlight how the memory of the Partition is preserved, and how the creative arts' relation to public memory and its place within the public sphere has changed through time. Collectively, the essays present a nuanced understanding of how the experience of violence, displacement, and trauma shaped postcolonial societies and subjectivities in the Indian subcontinent. Mapping the diverse topographies of Partition-related uncertainties and covering both well-known and lesser-known texts on the Partition, this book will be a useful contribution to studies of South Asian History, Asian Literature and Asian Film"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO; viewed on February 12, 2015) Subject South Asian literature (English) -- History and criticism Partition, Territorial, in literature. Motion pictures -- South Asia -- History LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. Literature Motion pictures Partition, Territorial, in literature South Asian literature (English) SUBJECT India -- History -- Partition, 1947 -- In literature India -- In literature Pakistan -- In literature India -- In motion pictures. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85064958 Pakistan -- In motion pictures Subject India Pakistan South Asia Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book Author Mehta, Rini Bhattacharya, editor. Mookerjea-Leonard, Debali, editor. Burton, Antoinette M., 1961- writer of foreword. ISBN 9781317669944 1317669940 9781315769608 1315769603

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