TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sarkar,Jaydip
AU  - Mukherjee,Rupayan
TI  - Partition Literature and Cinema: A Critical Introduction
SN  - 9781000067507
AV  - PK5423 .P37 2020
U1  - 809.93358540420002 
PY  - 2020///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Taylor & Francis Group
KW  - Indic fiction-20th century-History and criticism
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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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