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Memories and postmemories of the partition of India
- Title
- Memories and postmemories of the partition of India / Anjali Gera Roy.
- Author
- Roy, Anjali Gera
- Publication
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2020.
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Details
- Description
- xi, 248 pages; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "This book examines the afterlife of Partition as imprinted on the memories and postmemories of survivors and their children to show how they script their life stories to reinscribe tragic tales of violence and abjection into triumphalist sagas of fortitude, resilience, industry, enterprise and survival. By drawing upon current research in history, memory, narrative, violence, trauma, affect, home, nation, borders, refugees and citizenship, this book analyses the traumatizing effects of the somatic impact of direct violence and the aftermath of the equally traumatic experience of displacement, resettlement and struggle for survival shared by successive generations of survivors. At the same time, this book reveals the silences, stutters and stammers that interrupt survivors' narrations to bring attention to the untold stories repressed in their consensual narratives. Moreover, arguing that the event of Partition radically transformed the notions of home, belonging, self and community, it shows that individuals affected by Partition produce a new ethics and aesthetic of displacement and embody new ways of being in the world. An important contribution to the field of Partition studies, this book will be of interest to researchers on Asian history, South Asian studies and postcolonial studies"--
- Series Statement
- Routledge studies in South Asian history
- Uniform Title
- Routledge studies in South Asian history.
- Subjects
- India
- Memory > Political aspects
- Collective memory
- Memory > Political aspects > South Asia
- South Asia > Politics and government
- Social conditions
- Politics and culture > South Asia
- Collective memory > South Asia
- History
- 1947
- Partition of India (1947)
- South Asia > Social conditions
- India > History > Partition, 1947
- Memory > Social aspects > South Asia
- Politics and government
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- History, memory, forgetting -- Intangible violence -- Scripting their own lives -- They stuttered: non-narratives of the unsayable -- Not at home -- Memories of lost homes -- Resettled homes -- Moving on -- Partitioned subjects.
- Call Number
- JFE 19-10105
- ISBN
- 9781138580282
- 1138580287
- 9780429507458 (canceled/invalid)
- 9780429017360 (canceled/invalid)
- 9780429017377 (canceled/invalid)
- 9780429017353 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2019005167
- 40029402769
- OCLC
- 1083575581
- Author
- Roy, Anjali Gera, author.
- Title
- Memories and postmemories of the partition of India / Anjali Gera Roy.
- Publisher
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2020.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Routledge studies in South Asian historyRoutledge studies in South Asian history.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1947
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40029402769
- Research Call Number
- JFE 19-10105