Narratives of Loss and Longing (eBook, ePUB)

Literary Developments in Postcolonial South Asia
Redaktion: Langah, Nukhbah Taj; Sengupta, Roshni

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This volume brings together new research on the developing and transforming literary scape in South Asia in the aftermath of the partitions of 1947 and 1971. It thematically explores the transformations that have taken place in the literary spheres of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Dezember 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040270493
• Artikelnr.: 72321076

Autorenporträt

Nukhbah Taj Langah is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of English (Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences) University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Roshni Sengupta is an Associate Professor at the School of Liberal Studies, University of Petroleum and Energy Studies (UPES), India.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Recontextualizing Partition Trauma through Literature
1.Trauma and Identity Crisis in the Partition Fiction by Sa'adat Hassan
Manto and Joginder Paul 2. A Powerful Sense of Inhabitance: Lyric, Memory,
and Enduring Community in South Asia 3. Being in Partition: Ontology of a
Post-Partition Self 4."The Bridge of Words": Post-Partition Reflection in
Contemporary Urdu Writing from Pakistan Feminist Observations 5. Narrating
Rape and Resistance: Tracing the Trajectories of Birangona in Rizia
Rahman's Letters of Blood Minorities and Marginality 6. Dalit Migrant
Reminiscences from Bengal 7. The Symbol of Sufi Shrines in Basharat Peer's
Curfewed Nights: One Kashmiri Journalist's Frontline Account Life, Love and
War in his Homeland Vernacular History 8. Tracing the Vernacular Histories
of Partition: Reading P. Kesavadev's Bhranthalayam as a Partition Narrative
in Malayalam Bengali Literary Representations 9. Narrating History,
Constructing Memories: Mapping the 'Third Space' through Cultural
Negotiations in Post-Partition Bangladesh10. Re-thinking Cosmopolitanism /
Re-reading Tagore 11. Challenging Borders: A Selective Study of Bashabi
Fraser's Poetry Post-Partition Artistic and Literary Representations 12. In
hindsight: Pehalwans, Courtesans and the Promise of Democracy in Musharraf
Ali Farooqi's Between Clay and Dust Conclusion