Narrating Partition features in-depth interviews with more than 120 individuals across India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and the United Kingdom, each reflecting on their direct or inherited experience of the 1947 Indian/Pakistani partition. Through the collection of these oral history narratives, Raychaudhuri is able to place them into comparison with the literary, cinematic, and artistic representations of partition, and in doing so, examine the ways in whichthe events of partition are remembered, re-interpreted, and reconstructed and the themes (home, family, violence, childhood, trains, and rivers) that are recycled in the narration.…mehr
Narrating Partition features in-depth interviews with more than 120 individuals across India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and the United Kingdom, each reflecting on their direct or inherited experience of the 1947 Indian/Pakistani partition. Through the collection of these oral history narratives, Raychaudhuri is able to place them into comparison with the literary, cinematic, and artistic representations of partition, and in doing so, examine the ways in whichthe events of partition are remembered, re-interpreted, and reconstructed and the themes (home, family, violence, childhood, trains, and rivers) that are recycled in the narration.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Anindya Raychaudhuri is Lecturer at the School of English, University of St Andrews. He was previously British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, first at UCL and then at the University of St Andrews. He is editor of The Journal of the Oral History Society and The Spanish Civil War: Exhuming a Buried Past. In 2016, he was named one of the BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinkers.
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* Acknowledgments * Introduction * 1. "Wasn't It Golden?": Remembering the Lost Home * 2. "My Other Mother: Separated and Reconstructed Families * 3. "This Eight-Year-Old, He's Too Little": Children Taking Back Control * 4. "The Most Awful Thing I Watched": Partition and the Many Meanings of Violence * 5. "All Trains Stop There: The Icon of the Death-Train * 6. "I Still Dream of the Padma": Changing Riverscapes of Partition * 7. "The Cause": Working through the Memories of Partition * Conclusion: The Vital Importance of the Word * Appendix 1: List of Interviewees * Appendix 2: Glossary of South Asian Words * Notes * Bibliography * Index
* Acknowledgments * Introduction * 1. "Wasn't It Golden?": Remembering the Lost Home * 2. "My Other Mother: Separated and Reconstructed Families * 3. "This Eight-Year-Old, He's Too Little": Children Taking Back Control * 4. "The Most Awful Thing I Watched": Partition and the Many Meanings of Violence * 5. "All Trains Stop There: The Icon of the Death-Train * 6. "I Still Dream of the Padma": Changing Riverscapes of Partition * 7. "The Cause": Working through the Memories of Partition * Conclusion: The Vital Importance of the Word * Appendix 1: List of Interviewees * Appendix 2: Glossary of South Asian Words * Notes * Bibliography * Index
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