Tarun K Saint

Witnessing Partition

Memory, History, Fiction

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 350
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Januar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 404g
• ISBN-13: 9781138662612
• ISBN-10: 1138662615
• Artikelnr.: 44828557

Autorenporträt

Tarun K Saint teaches English at Hindu College, University of Delhi.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Negotiating the Effects of Historical Trauma: Novels of the
1940s and 50s 2. Partition's Afterlife: Perspectives from the 1960s and 70s
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 Bibliography
Index