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Partition Literature and Cinema : A Critical Introduction.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2020Copyright date: ©2020Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (195 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781000067507
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Partition Literature and CinemaDDC classification:
  • 809.93358540420002
LOC classification:
  • PK5423 .P37 2020
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of contributors -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Literature and film: an alternative archive of the Partition of India -- PART I: Historical reality: texts of response -- 1. Political mayhem and the moment of rupture: Bhisham Sahni's Tamas -- 2. Ideology of hatred and the violent making of nations: Khushwant Singh's Train to Pakistan -- 3. Partition and the shattered familiar: Bapsi Sidhwa's The Ice-Candy Man -- 4. Saadat Hasan Manto's "Toba Tek Singh": A nation split by trauma and madness -- 5. Translating trauma into sublime: Gulzar's response to Manto's "Toba Tek Singh" -- PART II: Memory and mnemonic: of homeland and homelessness -- 6. Politics of memory and the myth of homelessness: Intizar Husain's Basti -- 7. Redrawing the borders of nostalgia: A reading of Ritwik Ghatak's selected short stories -- 8. Memory of home and the impossibility of return: Reading Jibanananda Das's "I Shall Return to This Bengal" and "I Have Seen Bengal's Face" -- 9. Tracing erasure and re-mapping the memory lane: Partition movies of Ritwik Ghatak -- 10. From home to homeland: Negotiating memory and displacement in Dibyendu Palit's "Alam's Own House" -- PART III: Body politics: the woman in question -- 11. Decentrification and gendered perspectives in Partition narratives: An analysis of Garm Hava -- 12. Honour, woman's body and marginalisation: A study of Amrita Pritam's Pinjar -- 13. History versus (her)story: A study of Jyotirmoyee Devi's Epar Ganga Opar Ganga -- 14. Immanent needs, immediate solutions: Body and reconciliation in Manik Bandopadhyay's "The Final Solution" -- 15. The aporiac self: Feminine and the poetics of silence in Sabiha Sumar's Khamosh Pani.
Postscript: Inverted prisms, imperfect histories: towards a Dalit historiography of India's Partition -- Index.
Summary: This book studies literary and cinematic representations of the Partition of India. It features essays on key texts -- written and visual -- including Train to Pakistan, Toba Tek Singh, Basti, Garm Hava, Pinjar, among others.
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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of contributors -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Literature and film: an alternative archive of the Partition of India -- PART I: Historical reality: texts of response -- 1. Political mayhem and the moment of rupture: Bhisham Sahni's Tamas -- 2. Ideology of hatred and the violent making of nations: Khushwant Singh's Train to Pakistan -- 3. Partition and the shattered familiar: Bapsi Sidhwa's The Ice-Candy Man -- 4. Saadat Hasan Manto's "Toba Tek Singh": A nation split by trauma and madness -- 5. Translating trauma into sublime: Gulzar's response to Manto's "Toba Tek Singh" -- PART II: Memory and mnemonic: of homeland and homelessness -- 6. Politics of memory and the myth of homelessness: Intizar Husain's Basti -- 7. Redrawing the borders of nostalgia: A reading of Ritwik Ghatak's selected short stories -- 8. Memory of home and the impossibility of return: Reading Jibanananda Das's "I Shall Return to This Bengal" and "I Have Seen Bengal's Face" -- 9. Tracing erasure and re-mapping the memory lane: Partition movies of Ritwik Ghatak -- 10. From home to homeland: Negotiating memory and displacement in Dibyendu Palit's "Alam's Own House" -- PART III: Body politics: the woman in question -- 11. Decentrification and gendered perspectives in Partition narratives: An analysis of Garm Hava -- 12. Honour, woman's body and marginalisation: A study of Amrita Pritam's Pinjar -- 13. History versus (her)story: A study of Jyotirmoyee Devi's Epar Ganga Opar Ganga -- 14. Immanent needs, immediate solutions: Body and reconciliation in Manik Bandopadhyay's "The Final Solution" -- 15. The aporiac self: Feminine and the poetics of silence in Sabiha Sumar's Khamosh Pani.

Postscript: Inverted prisms, imperfect histories: towards a Dalit historiography of India's Partition -- Index.

This book studies literary and cinematic representations of the Partition of India. It features essays on key texts -- written and visual -- including Train to Pakistan, Toba Tek Singh, Basti, Garm Hava, Pinjar, among others.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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