This book brings together conversations about the Partition and its haunting residues in the present as represented in literary, visual, oral, and material cultures of the subcontinent and beyond. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of South Asian Review.
This book brings together conversations about the Partition and its haunting residues in the present as represented in literary, visual, oral, and material cultures of the subcontinent and beyond.
The seventy-fifth anniversary of Partition confronts scholars with significantly new subjects for reflection. The question of historical memory has now largely transformed to one of its reproductions through mass politics and mass media and, perhaps, professional academic inquiry, while the very meaning or value of Independence is in crisis. This edited volume includes chapters on representations of partition experiences and the re-drawing of the subcontinents political map. While the impact of the partition of the Punjab has been the focus of much scholarly studies in the past, and Bengal to a smaller extent, this collection extends the examination of the impact of this political event elsewhere in other communities in the subcontinent, and across other differentials.
This book will be of interest to students, scholars and researchers of Indian history, Partition studies, literature, popular culture and performance, postcolonial studies, and South Asian studies. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of South Asian Review.
Introduction: The Partition at 75+
1. Grooving on at Seventy-Five: Shah
Rukh Khan, Salman Rushdie, and the Indian Muslims Ecstatic Return
2.
Ancestral Voices Prophesying War: Investigating the Legacy of the 1947
Partition in the 21st-Century Indian Cultural Imagination of Nuclear War
3.
Retooling Trauma: Partition as Celebratory Nationalism in Neoliberal
Metropolitan Cinema
4. Materializing the Memory: The Shawl in Partition
Narratives
5. Death and Life in the Bordersand: On the Queer Remembrance of
Partition through Geetanjali Shrees Tomb of Sand
6. The Story of Our
Shame: Confronting the Silenced Bihari Other in Mahmud Rahmans Kerosene
7. Hypereventing History: Ecological and Political Disaster in Bengali Dalit
Narratives on Partition
8. Synchronizing the Dalan, Chandal Aesthetics and
Namashudrayan in Manoranjan Byaparis Autobiography Interrogating My Chandal
Life
9. Partition in Bangla Little Magazines: Trajectories of Politics and
Culture
10. Entangled by Borders: Bodies, Citizenship, and Gender in Assam
11. Descendants of a Difficult Past: Narratives of the Sindhi Partition
Refugees in Bangalore
Nalini Iyer is Professor of English at Seattle University and Chief Editor of South Asian Review. Among her numerous publications is the co-edited book Revisiting Indias Partition: New Essays in Memory, Culture, and Politics.
Debali Mookerjea-Leonard is Roop Distinguished Professor of English at James Madison University, Harrisonburg, USA. She is the author of Literature, Gender, and the Trauma of Partition: The Paradox of Independence. She also translates Bengali poetry and fiction, including Sunil Gangopadhyays Blood and Bani Basus The Continents Between.
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