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Revisiting India's Partition : New Essays on Memory, Culture, and Politics.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Blue Ridge Summit : Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (401 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781498531054
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Revisiting India's PartitionDDC classification:
  • 954.042
LOC classification:
  • DS480.842 -- .R485 2016eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part I: Approaches to Partition -- Chapter One: Specters of Democracy/The Gender of Specters -- Chapter Two: Lost Homes, Shifting Borders, and the Search for Belonging -- Chapter Three: A Will to Say or Unsay -- Chapter Four: Migrations in Absentia -- Part II: Nations and Narrations -- Chapter Five: Exorcizing the Ghosts of Times Past -- Chapter Six: Difficult Choices -- Chapter Seven: Refugees as Homo Sacers -- Part III: Borders and Borderlands -- Chapter Eight: Property, Violence, and Displacement -- Chapter Nine: The Long Shadow of 1947 -- Chapter Ten: From Frontiers to Borders -- Chapter Eleven: Looking East -- Part IV: From Pakistan to Bangladesh -- Chapter Twelve: The Never-Ending Partition -- Chapter Thirteen: Partition and the Bangladeshi Literary Response -- Chapter Fourteen: Cosmopolitan Aesthetics in Shakeel Adil Zada's Baazigar -- Chapter Fifteen: The Nexus of Class, Identity, and Politics in the Representational Economy of Partition -- Chapter Sixteen: Partition and Beyond -- Part V: Partitions Within -- Chapter Seventeen: Buckle in the Hindu Belt -- Chapter Eighteen: Hyderabad, Partition, and Hindutva -- Chapter Nineteen: Partition's Others -- Index -- Contributors.
Summary: This collection explores the continuing cultural, political, and social impact of the Partition on India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and in the South Asian diaspora. It focuses on neglected areas in the existing scholarship on the subjects--themes as well as regions within South Asia--that illustrates Vazira Zamindar's idea of a "Long Partition.".
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Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part I: Approaches to Partition -- Chapter One: Specters of Democracy/The Gender of Specters -- Chapter Two: Lost Homes, Shifting Borders, and the Search for Belonging -- Chapter Three: A Will to Say or Unsay -- Chapter Four: Migrations in Absentia -- Part II: Nations and Narrations -- Chapter Five: Exorcizing the Ghosts of Times Past -- Chapter Six: Difficult Choices -- Chapter Seven: Refugees as Homo Sacers -- Part III: Borders and Borderlands -- Chapter Eight: Property, Violence, and Displacement -- Chapter Nine: The Long Shadow of 1947 -- Chapter Ten: From Frontiers to Borders -- Chapter Eleven: Looking East -- Part IV: From Pakistan to Bangladesh -- Chapter Twelve: The Never-Ending Partition -- Chapter Thirteen: Partition and the Bangladeshi Literary Response -- Chapter Fourteen: Cosmopolitan Aesthetics in Shakeel Adil Zada's Baazigar -- Chapter Fifteen: The Nexus of Class, Identity, and Politics in the Representational Economy of Partition -- Chapter Sixteen: Partition and Beyond -- Part V: Partitions Within -- Chapter Seventeen: Buckle in the Hindu Belt -- Chapter Eighteen: Hyderabad, Partition, and Hindutva -- Chapter Nineteen: Partition's Others -- Index -- Contributors.

This collection explores the continuing cultural, political, and social impact of the Partition on India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and in the South Asian diaspora. It focuses on neglected areas in the existing scholarship on the subjects--themes as well as regions within South Asia--that illustrates Vazira Zamindar's idea of a "Long Partition.".

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