Memories and postmemories of the partition of India

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Memories and postmemories of the partition of India

Anjali Gera Roy

(Routledge studies in South Asian history, 20)

Routledge, 2020

  • : hbk

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-233) and index

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内容説明

This book examines the afterlife of Partition as imprinted on the memories and postmemories of Hindu and Sikh survivors from West Punjab to foreground the intersection between history, memory and narrative. It shows how survivors script their life stories to reinscribe tragic tales of violence and abjection into triumphalist sagas of fortitude, resilience, industry, enterprise and success. At the same time, it reveals the silences, stutters and stammers that interrupt survivors' narrations to bring attention to the untold stories repressed in their consensual narratives. By drawing upon current research in history, memory, narrative, violence, trauma, affect, home, nation, borders, refugees and citizenship, the book analyzes the traumatizing effects of both the tangible and intangible violence of Partition by tracing the survivors' journey from refugees to citizens as they struggle to make new homes and lives in an unhomely land. Moreover, arguing that the event of Partition radically transformed the notions of home, belonging, self and community, it shows that individuals affected by Partition produce a new ethics and aesthetic of displacement and embody new ways of being in the world. An important contribution to the field of Partition studies, this book will be of interest to researchers on South Asian history, memory, partition and postcolonial studies.

目次

  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. History, Memory, Forgetting
  • 3. Intangible Violence
  • 4. Scripting their Own Lives
  • 5. They Stuttered: Non-narratives of the Unsayable
  • 6. Not at Home
  • 7. Memories of Lost Homes
  • 8. Resettled Homes
  • 9. Moving On
  • 10. Partitioned Subjects

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