Revisiting India's Partition : New Essays on Memory, Culture, and Politics.
Singh, Amritjit.
Revisiting India's Partition : New Essays on Memory, Culture, and Politics. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (401 pages)
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.".
9781498531054
Memory - Political aspects - South Asia.
Electronic books.
DS480.842 -- .R485 2016eb
954.042
Revisiting India's Partition : New Essays on Memory, Culture, and Politics. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (401 pages)
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.".
9781498531054
Memory - Political aspects - South Asia.
Electronic books.
DS480.842 -- .R485 2016eb
954.042