Barbed Wire (eBook, ePUB)

Borders and Partitions in South Asia
Redaktion: Sengupta, Jayita

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Produktbeschreibung

This anthology brings together creative and critical responses to the partition of India within and across borders. The narratives examine the complexities and experiences of a bruised nation, highlighting how the barbed wires within and across boundaries haunt its social, psychological, religious and political consciousness.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 334
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. November 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000365658
• Artikelnr.: 60582515

Autorenporträt

Jayita Sengupta is Reader and Head, Department of English, South Calcutta Girls' College, University of Calcutta.

Inhaltsangabe

Dedication. Preface. Acknowledgements. Note on Translation. Glossary.
Introduction PART ONE. I. Crossing Over: Rememory(ing) the Loss 1.
Uprooted Achinyo Kumar Sengupta 2. 'Hello Khukhu!' Indrani Sen 3. Across
Boundaries Anita Tandon 4. Distance to Lahore Surjit Sarna 5. Living the
Dream: Narrating a Landscape Lost and a Land Left Behind Ashes Gupta 6.
The Ultimate Dislocation: Migration, Histories and the Human Jasbir Jain
II. Bruised Nation: Tropes of Violence 7. Partition as Leitmotif in the
Stories of Sa'adat Hasan Manto Sreemati Mukherjee 8. The Emblematic Body:
Women and Nationalism in Partition Narratives Himadri Lahiri 9. Holocausts
and Human Hearts: A Study of Rajinder Singh Bedi's 'Lajwanti' Nibir Kumar
Ghosh 10. Recalling the 'City of the Dreadful Night': Narratives of
Partition Tutun Mukherjee. III. Reconstructing Identities: Strategies of
Survival 11. Dismemberment and/or Reconstitution: Visual Representations of
the Partition of Bengal Somdatta Mandal 12. Chaos, Dislocation and Problem
of Identity in Sunil Gangopadhyay's 'Arjun' Naina Dey. PART TWO. IV. Of
Borders, Barbed Wires and the Unending Trail: Map Makings and Map Makings
(North-East and East) 13. Of Nation (an excerpt) Debashish Tarafdar 14.
Thinking and Rethinking Partition in the North-East: Colonial and
Post-Colonial Assam Moushumi Datta Pathak 15. Me and the World of
Millitants Indira (Mamoni Raisom) Goswami 16. At the Crossroads:
Representation of Violence in Contemporary Assamese Poetry Bibhash
Choudhury 17. Locatings Dilipkanti Laskar 18. Bangladesh: Dhirendrandra
Nath Dutta and the Language Movement Kamaluddin Ahmed 19. Of Bangladesh and
East India: Fictional Representation of Violence and Migration after 1947
Jayita Sengupta 20. People in Quest of a River (Excerpts) Purabi Bormodoi
21. Pushback Meenkashi Sen V. The Agony of Desire: Kashmir 22. A Brief
Overview of the Kashmir Issue Jayita Sengupta 23. In the Shadow of
Militancy: The Diary of an Unknown Kashmiri (Excerpts) Tej N. Dhar 24.
Special Reports from Kashmir Kavita Suri VI. Partitions: The Undying Angst
25. The Partition Ghazal Keki Daruwalla 26. Criminal Jilano Bano 27.
Kamaleshwar's Kitne Pakistan and the Metaphors of Partition Ameena Kazi
Ansari. Select Bibliography. About the Editor. Notes on Contributors. Index