Bengal Partition Stories

An Unclosed Chapter
Herausgeber: Fraser, Bashabi

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Produktbeschreibung

Through oral histories, interviews and fictional retellings, 'Bengal Partition Stories' unearths and articulates the collective memories of a people traumatised by the brutal division of their homeland.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Anthem Press
• Seitenzahl: 640
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 39mm
• Gewicht: 1117g
• ISBN-13: 9781843312253
• ISBN-10: 1843312255
• Artikelnr.: 22176371

Autorenporträt

Dr Bashabi Fraser is currently a Lecturer in English Literature at Napier University and an Honorary Fellow at Edinburgh University.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Foreword
Introduction
About the Translation
About the Stories
The maps: ii) India before 14/15 August 1947
iii) India, Bangladesh and Pakistan Today
iv) Undivided Begal
v) West Bengal and Bangladesh Today
The Authors and Their Stories
Poem: 'Mob Fury'
The Stories: The Solution
The Protector
Insignificance
The Saviour
The Ledger
Treaty
Loss
Infidel
Boatman, Honour, In a Place and in a Land
Here and There
Hindu
Acharya Kripalani Colony
The Crossing
A Thorn in the Path, Alien Land
The Border
India
Poem: 'An Abducted Woman: The Loot'
Illegitimate
Home, Sweet Home!
The Stricken Daughter
Embrace
Kings Come and Kings Go, The Story of Sonadas Baul
Of Ram and Rahim
Looking Back
Refugee
The Debt of a Generation
If
Another Tune in Another Room
Alam's Own House
Three Generations
Rehabilitation
The Girl was Innocent
Infiltration
Deliverance
Tagore
Wild-Goose Country, Poem: 'This Border'
The Translators, The Authors, Bibliography, Glossary