Witnessing Partition: Memory, History, Fiction
Autor Tarun K. Sainten Limba Engleză Paperback – 27 aug 2019
With a new afterword, the second edition of this volume draws attention to recent developments in Partition studies and sheds new light as regards ongoing debates about an event that still casts a shadow on contemporary South Asian society and culture. A key text, this is essential reading for scholars, researchers and students of literary criticism, South Asian studies, cultural studies and modern history.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780367210366
ISBN-10: 0367210363
Pagini: 272
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.4 kg
Ediția:2 ed
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge India
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0367210363
Pagini: 272
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.4 kg
Ediția:2 ed
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge India
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
Public țintă
PostgraduateCuprins
Introduction 1. Negotiating the Effects of Historical Trauma: Novels of the 1940s and 1950s 2. Partition’s Afterlife: Perspectives from the 1960s and 1970s 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. Afterword
Notă biografică
Tarun K. Saint taught English literature for many years at Hindu College, Delhi University, India, and is now an independent scholar and writer. His research interests include the literature of the Partition and science fiction/speculative literature. He edited Bruised Memories: Communal Violence and the Writer (2002) and co-edited (with Ravikant) Translating Partition (2001). He has co-edited the anthology Looking Back: India’s Partition, 70 Years On (2017), with Rakhshanda Jalil and Debjani Sengupta. Recently, he has edited The Gollancz Book of South Asian Science Fiction (2019).
Recenzii
"Witnessing Partition, now updated to include recent writing and scholarship on the afterlives of Partition, remains crucial to our understanding of the many ways in which that process continues to structure politics and culture across the subcontinent. Highly recommended." — Suvir Kaul, A. M. Rosenthal Professor, Department of English, University of Pennsylvania, USA
"Tarun Saint’s Witnessing Partition: Memory, History, Fiction offers a lucid and scholarly account of novels about the wounds inflicted and traumas suffered by individuals and communities during the partition of 1947. The second edition of his book should again remind us about two contemporary ethical and political concerns: the troubling relation between religious, nationalist and racial politics and genocide; and the urgent need of 'courage-teachers' (satyagrahis) who always refuse, under all circumstances, hysterical demands for aggression and revenge. Tarun’s new "Afterword" argues that partition violence still haunts our present social and religious discourse; its scars have still not healed; its melancholy has yet not lifted." — Alok Bhalla, author of Stories about the Partition of India (4 volumes) and Partition Dialogues
"Tarun Saint’s Witnessing Partition: Memory, History, Fiction offers a lucid and scholarly account of novels about the wounds inflicted and traumas suffered by individuals and communities during the partition of 1947. The second edition of his book should again remind us about two contemporary ethical and political concerns: the troubling relation between religious, nationalist and racial politics and genocide; and the urgent need of "courage-teachers" (satyagrahis) who always refuse, under all circumstances, hysterical demands for aggression and revenge. Tarun’s new "Afterword" argues that partition violence still haunts our present social and religious discourse; its scars have still not healed; its melancholy has yet not lifted." — Alok Bhalla, author of Stories about the Partition of India (4 volumes) and Partition Dialogues
"Witnessing Partition, now updated to include recent writing and scholarship on the afterlives of Partition, remains crucial to our understanding of the many ways in which that process continues to structure politics and culture across the subcontinent. Highly recommended." — Suvir Kaul, A. M. Rosenthal Professor, Department of English, University of Pennsylvania, USA
"Tarun Saint’s Witnessing Partition: Memory, History, Fiction offers a lucid and scholarly account of novels about the wounds inflicted and traumas suffered by individuals and communities during the partition of 1947. The second edition of his book should again remind us about two contemporary ethical and political concerns: the troubling relation between religious, nationalist and racial politics and genocide; and the urgent need of 'courage-teachers' (satyagrahis) who always refuse, under all circumstances, hysterical demands for aggression and revenge. Tarun’s new "Afterword" argues that partition violence still haunts our present social and religious discourse; its scars have still not healed; its melancholy has yet not lifted." — Alok Bhalla, author of Stories about the Partition of India (4 volumes) and Partition Dialogues
"Tarun Saint’s Witnessing Partition: Memory, History, Fiction offers a lucid and scholarly account of novels about the wounds inflicted and traumas suffered by individuals and communities during the partition of 1947. The second edition of his book should again remind us about two contemporary ethical and political concerns: the troubling relation between religious, nationalist and racial politics and genocide; and the urgent need of "courage-teachers" (satyagrahis) who always refuse, under all circumstances, hysterical demands for aggression and revenge. Tarun’s new "Afterword" argues that partition violence still haunts our present social and religious discourse; its scars have still not healed; its melancholy has yet not lifted." — Alok Bhalla, author of Stories about the Partition of India (4 volumes) and Partition Dialogues
"Witnessing Partition, now updated to include recent writing and scholarship on the afterlives of Partition, remains crucial to our understanding of the many ways in which that process continues to structure politics and culture across the subcontinent. Highly recommended." — Suvir Kaul, A. M. Rosenthal Professor, Department of English, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Descriere
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.