"This book studies literary and cinematic representations of the Partition of India. It discusses Partition as not just an immediate historical catastrophe but as a lingering cultural presence and consequently a potent trope in literary and visual representations. The volume features essays on key texts - written and visual - including Train to Pakistan, Toba Tek Singh, Basti, Garm Hava, Pinjar, among others. Partition Literature and Cinema will be indispensable introductory reading for students and researchers of modern Indian history, Partition studies, literature, film studies, media and cultural studies, popular culture and performance, postcolonial studies, and South Asian studies. It will also be of interest to enthusiasts of Indian cinematic history"--
This book studies literary and cinematic representations of the Partition of India. It discusses Partition as not just an immediate historical catastrophe but as a lingering cultural presence and consequently a potent trope in literary and visual representations. The volume features essays on key texts written and visual including Train to Pakistan, "Toba Tek Singh", Basti, Garm Hava, Pinjar, among others.
Partition Literature and Cinema will be indispensable introductory reading for students and researchers of modern Indian history, Partition studies, literature, film studies, media and cultural studies, popular culture and performance, postcolonial studies, and South Asian studies. It will also be of interest to enthusiasts of Indian cinematic history.
Introduction: Literature and Film: An Alternative Archive of the
Partition of India Part 1: Historical Reality: Texts of Response
1. Political
Mayhems and the Moment of Rupture: Bhisham Sahnis Tamas
2. Ideology of
Hatred and the Violent Making of Nations: Khushwant Singhs Train to Pakistan
3. Partition and the Shattered Familiar: Bapsi Sidhwas The Ice-Candy Man
4.
Saadat Hasan Mantos "Toba Tek Singh": A Nation Split by Trauma and Madness
5. Translating Trauma into Sublime: Gulzars Response to Mantos "Toba Tek
Singh" Part 2: Memory and Mnemonic: Of Homeland and Homelessness
6. Politics
of Memory and the Myth of Homelessness: Intizar Husains Basti
7. Redrawing
the Borders of Nostalgia: A Reading of Ritwik Ghataks Selected Short Stories
8. Memory of Home and the Impossibility of Return: Reading Jibanananda Dass
"I Shall Return to This Bengal" and "I Have Seen Bengals 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
Palits "Alams own House" Part 3: Body-Politics: The Woman in Question
11.
Decentrification and Gendered perspectives in Partition Narratives: An
analysis of Garm Hava
12. Honour, Womens Body and Marginalisation: A Study
of Amrita Pritams Pinjar
13. History Versus (Her)story: Jyotirmoyee Devis
Epar Ganga Opar Ganga
14. Immanent Needs, Immediate Solutions: Body and
Reconciliation in Manik Bandopadhyays "The Final Solution"
15. The Aporiac
Self: Feminine and the Poetics of Silence in Sabiha Sumars Khamosh Pani Post
Script: Inverted Prisms, Imperfect Histories: Towards a Dalit Historiography
of Indias Partition
Jaydip Sarkar is Associate Professor at the Department of English, University B.T. & Evening College, West Bengal, India. He has edited and co-edited several books including Writing Difference: Nationalism, Identity and Literature (2014), Unmasking Power: Subjectivity and Resistance in Indian Drama in English (2014) and A Handbook of Rhetoric and Prosody (2018).
Rupayan Mukherjee is Teaching Assistant at the Department of English, University B.T. & Evening College, West Bengal, India. His research interests include modernism, postmodern studies and South Asian literature.
