In the Shadow of Partition (eBook, ePUB)

Seventy-Five Years and Beyond
Redaktion: Iyer, Nalini; Mookerjea-Leonard, Debali

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book brings together conversations about the Partition and its haunting residues in the present as represented in literary, visual, oral, and material cultures of the subcontinent and beyond. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of South Asian Review.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Dezember 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040225400
• Artikelnr.: 72271035

Autorenporträt

Nalini Iyer is Professor of English at Seattle University and Chief Editor of South Asian Review. Among her numerous publications is the co-edited book Revisiting India's Partition: New Essays in Memory, Culture, and Politics. Debali Mookerjea-Leonard is Roop Distinguished Professor of English at James Madison University, Harrisonburg, USA. She is the author of Literature, Gender, and the Trauma of Partition: The Paradox of Independence. She also translates Bengali poetry and fiction, including Sunil Gangopadhyay's Blood and Bani Basu's The Continents Between.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Partition at 75+ 1. Grooving on at Seventy-Five: Shah
Rukh Khan, Salman Rushdie, and the Indian Muslim's Ecstatic Return 2.
"Ancestral Voices Prophesying War": Investigating the Legacy of the 1947
Partition in the 21st-Century Indian Cultural Imagination of Nuclear War
3. Retooling Trauma: Partition as Celebratory Nationalism in Neoliberal
Metropolitan Cinema 4. Materializing the Memory: The Shawl in Partition
Narratives 5. Death and Life in the Bordersand: On the Queer Remembrance of
Partition through Geetanjali Shree's Tomb of Sand 6. "The Story of Our
Shame": Confronting the Silenced 'Bihari' Other in Mahmud Rahman's
"Kerosene" 7. Hypereventing History: Ecological and Political Disaster in
Bengali Dalit Narratives on Partition 8. Synchronizing the Dalan, Chandal
Aesthetics and Namashudrayan in Manoranjan Byapari's Autobiography
Interrogating My Chandal Life 9. Partition in Bangla Little Magazines:
Trajectories of Politics and Culture 10. Entangled by Borders: Bodies,
Citizenship, and Gender in Assam 11. Descendants of a Difficult Past:
Narratives of the Sindhi Partition Refugees in Bangalore