Research Catalog

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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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.

Subject

• Partition of India (1947)
• 1947
• Collective memory > South Asia
• Memory > Social aspects > South Asia
• Memory > Political aspects > South Asia
• Politics and culture > South Asia
• Collective memory
• Memory > Political aspects
• Memory > Social aspects
• Politics and culture
• Politics and government
• Social conditions
• India > History > Partition, 1947
• South Asia > Politics and government
• South Asia > Social conditions
• India
• South Asia

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 history

Routledge studies in South Asian history.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

1947

Other Standard Identifier

40029402769

Research Call Number

JFE 19-10105