The Indian Partition in Literature and Films: History, Politics, and Aesthetics

ISBN-13: 9780367322199 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 204 str.

Rini Bhattacharya Mehta; Debali Mookerjea-Leonard

Opis

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.

Spis treści

Foreword Introduction Part 1 Surviving Violence 1. Quarantined: Women and the Partition 2. The Extraordinary and the Everyday: Locating Violence in Women’s Narratives of the Partition Part 2: Borders and Belonging 3. Many Pakistans, Half a Village: Interrogating Borders in the Discourse on the Partition of India 4. Fragments of Familiarity: The Bengal Partition in Samaresh Basu’s Short Stories 5. Patriotic Pakistanis, Exiled Poets or Unwelcome Refugees? Three Urdu Poets Write of Partition and Its Aftermath 6. Nation (De)Composed: Ritwik Ghatak, Guru Dutt, Saadat Hasan Manto, and the Shifting Shapes of National Memory Part 3: History, Memory, and Aesthetics 7. Toward a Cognitive Poetics of History: Pinjar, the Rāmāyaṇa, and Partition 8. Representing Partition: Poetics of Emotion in Pinjar 9. Return and Retake: Stardom Meets Post-Partition Trauma in Bengali Cinema