Memories and Postmemories of the Partition of India

ISBN-13: 9781138580282 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 260 str.

Anjali Gera Roy

Opis

This book examines the afterlife of Partition as imprinted on the memories and postmemories of Hindu and Sikh survivors from West Punjab to foreground the intersection between history, memory and narrative.

Spis treści

1. Introduction; 2. History, Memory, Forgetting; 3. Intangible Violence; 4. Scripting their Own Lives; 5. They Stuttered: Non-narratives of the Unsayable; 6. Not at Home; 7. Memories of Lost Homes; 8. Resettled Homes; 9. Moving On; 10. Partitioned Subjects

O autorze

Anjali Gera Roy is a Professor in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India. Grounded in post-colonial literature and theory, her current research spans fiction, film, performance, oral histories, borders, mobilities, refugees and citizenship.