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Narrating South Asian partition : oral history, literature, cinema

Title: Narrating South Asian partition : oral history, literature, cinema / Anindya Raychaudhuri.
Author: Raychaudhuri, Anindya
Publication: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2019]

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Description

x, 222 pages; 25 cm.

Summary

"This book brings together 'private' and 'public' forms of memory narratives of the 1947 Indian/Pakistani partition, by looking at both oral history testimonies and cultural representations of partition. Raychaudhuri will compare literary, cinematic, and artistic representations of partition with a body of oral history interviews in order to look at the ways in which the events of partition are remembered, re-interpreted, and reconstructed, the themes (home, family, violence, childhood, trains, and rivers) that are recycled in the narration, and the voices that remain elided. This will be one of the very first truly interdisciplinary studies of the cultural and memorial legacy of the 1947 Indian/Pakistani partition. While there have been a number of notable studies of oral histories of partition, there has been very little which seeks to compare the 'private' testimonies with 'public' forms of memorialization"--

Series Statement

The Oxford oral history series

Uniform Title

Oxford oral history series.

Subjects

Genre/Form

History.
Personal narratives.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

"Wasn't it golden?" : remembering the lost home -- "My other mother" : separated and reconstructed families -- "This eight-year-old, he's too little" : children taking back control -- "The most awful thing I watched" : partition and the many meanings of violence -- "All trains stop there" : the icon of the death-train -- "I still dream of the Padma" : changing riverscapes of partition -- "The cause" : working through the memories of partition -- Conclusion: The vital importance of the word.

Call Number

JFE 19-9854

ISBN

9780190249748
0190249749

LCCN

2019020143

OCLC

1107840884

Author

Raychaudhuri, Anindya, author.

Title

Narrating South Asian partition : oral history, literature, cinema / Anindya Raychaudhuri.

Publisher

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2019]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

The Oxford oral history series

Oxford oral history series.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

1900-1999

Research Call Number

JFE 19-9854

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