2007, ISBN: 8131600459

[EAN: 9788131600450], Gebraucht, wie neu, [PU: Rawat, New Delhi], 48174, History|Asia|India & South Asia, Literary Criticism|General, Contents Preface. Introduction creativity and narrata… Mehr…

[EAN: 9788131600450], Gebraucht, wie neu, [PU: Rawat, New Delhi], 48174, History|Asia|India & South Asia, Literary Criticism|General, Contents Preface. Introduction creativity and narratability/Jasbir Jain. 1. Zindaginama/Krishna Sobti. 2. Some thoughts on writing partition and Zindaginama/Krishna Sobti. 3. Partitioned memories/Mohan Kalpana. 4. Traitor to the Taj Mahal/Mohan Kalpana. 5. Midnight's lost children/Begum Anis Kidwai. 6. Weaving black borders Manto and the politics of partition/Harish Narang. 7. Partition as Hijarat and as slave trade reading Intizar Husain's An Unwritten Epic /Sudhir Chandra. 8. The dance of death on the highways of steel reading train journeys in partition stories/Vijaya Singh. 9. Porous boundaries and divided selves/Jasodhara Bagchi. 10. Idiom of the body and individual memory as social text in partition stories/Madhuri Chatterjee. 11. Fractured homelands divided bodies partition narratives from Punjab/Urmil Talwar. 12. Divided blood lines Bapsi Sidhwa's fiction/Nilufer E. Bharucha. 13. Rituals do us part and rituals unite/Veena Singh. 14. Muhajir ki Duniya reality and fantasy in the world of a refugee/Supriya Agarwal. 15. Partition between memory and representation/Bandana Chakrabarty. 16. Between the walls/Nida Fazli. 17. In the high wind/Keki N. Daruwalla. 18. A bunch of Narcissus/Surjit Sarna. 19. Filtered memories oral narratives and partition history a re reading of Borders and Boundaries and the The Other Side of Silence/Usha Bande. 20. The lengthening shadows of the partition Khamosh Pani a plea for humanism/Tripti Jain. 21. Writing Kitne Pakistan compulsion and necessity/Kamleshwar. 22. Customising the body Kamleshwar's Kitne Pakistan/Ameena Kazi Ansari. 23. The impossible search of the fragments/Santosh Gupta. 24. Phir bhi dil hai Hindustani/Mimmy Jain. 25. Against forgetting partitions and the constructs of history memory and nation in Rushdie and Kamleshwar/Avinash Jodha. 26. Living in the city/Asif Farrukhi. 27. Intersection time 1947/Anisur Rahman. 28. Writing trauma and history the self in the world/Jasbir Jain. Contributors. Partition has left deep scars on the national psyche. This one distortion of history with its disjunction between the minds of men and the course of events has gone on to produce other distortions. We are trapped in our histories. It has impacted relationships the notions of homeland and nation erased languages and cultures and given rise to a whole set of questions about self and identity. This volume consisting of an interleaving of fiction memoirs historical and political analysis moves into philosophical and psychological discussions and thus subjects partition to fresh reflection as debates about remembering and forgetting forgiving or persisting with hostilities are carried on. Individual essays and narratives written over nearly five decades represent the viewpoints of three generations across a cross section of society in terms of religions geographical locations and national borders as they move from migrations and uprooting violence and loss to reflect upon the human being in a larger existential framework. Essentially interdisciplinary in nature Reading Partition / Living Partition brings to the reader the work of distinguished writers and scholars of the subcontinent compelling the reader to probe her/his own conscience afresh. 338 pp.<

2007, ISBN: 8131600459

[EAN: 9788131600450], Gebraucht, wie neu, [PU: Rawat, New Delhi], 48174, History|Asia|India & South Asia, Literary Criticism|General, Contents Preface. Introduction creativity and narrata… Mehr…

[EAN: 9788131600450], Gebraucht, wie neu, [PU: Rawat, New Delhi], 48174, History|Asia|India & South Asia, Literary Criticism|General, Contents Preface. Introduction creativity and narratability/Jasbir Jain. 1. Zindaginama/Krishna Sobti. 2. Some thoughts on writing partition and Zindaginama/Krishna Sobti. 3. Partitioned memories/Mohan Kalpana. 4. Traitor to the Taj Mahal/Mohan Kalpana. 5. Midnight's lost children/Begum Anis Kidwai. 6. Weaving black borders Manto and the politics of partition/Harish Narang. 7. Partition as Hijarat and as slave trade reading Intizar Husain's An Unwritten Epic /Sudhir Chandra. 8. The dance of death on the highways of steel reading train journeys in partition stories/Vijaya Singh. 9. Porous boundaries and divided selves/Jasodhara Bagchi. 10. Idiom of the body and individual memory as social text in partition stories/Madhuri Chatterjee. 11. Fractured homelands divided bodies partition narratives from Punjab/Urmil Talwar. 12. Divided blood lines Bapsi Sidhwa's fiction/Nilufer E. Bharucha. 13. Rituals do us part and rituals unite/Veena Singh. 14. Muhajir ki Duniya reality and fantasy in the world of a refugee/Supriya Agarwal. 15. Partition between memory and representation/Bandana Chakrabarty. 16. Between the walls/Nida Fazli. 17. In the high wind/Keki N. Daruwalla. 18. A bunch of Narcissus/Surjit Sarna. 19. Filtered memories oral narratives and partition history a re reading of Borders and Boundaries and the The Other Side of Silence/Usha Bande. 20. The lengthening shadows of the partition Khamosh Pani a plea for humanism/Tripti Jain. 21. Writing Kitne Pakistan compulsion and necessity/Kamleshwar. 22. Customising the body Kamleshwar's Kitne Pakistan/Ameena Kazi Ansari. 23. The impossible search of the fragments/Santosh Gupta. 24. Phir bhi dil hai Hindustani/Mimmy Jain. 25. Against forgetting partitions and the constructs of history memory and nation in Rushdie and Kamleshwar/Avinash Jodha. 26. Living in the city/Asif Farrukhi. 27. Intersection time 1947/Anisur Rahman. 28. Writing trauma and history the self in the world/Jasbir Jain. Contributors. Partition has left deep scars on the national psyche. This one distortion of history with its disjunction between the minds of men and the course of events has gone on to produce other distortions. We are trapped in our histories. It has impacted relationships the notions of homeland and nation erased languages and cultures and given rise to a whole set of questions about self and identity. This volume consisting of an interleaving of fiction memoirs historical and political analysis moves into philosophical and psychological discussions and thus subjects partition to fresh reflection as debates about remembering and forgetting forgiving or persisting with hostilities are carried on. Individual essays and narratives written over nearly five decades represent the viewpoints of three generations across a cross section of society in terms of religions geographical locations and national borders as they move from migrations and uprooting violence and loss to reflect upon the human being in a larger existential framework. Essentially interdisciplinary in nature Reading Partition / Living Partition brings to the reader the work of distinguished writers and scholars of the subcontinent compelling the reader to probe her/his own conscience afresh. 338 pp.<

2007, ISBN: 8131600459

[EAN: 9788131600450], Gebraucht, wie neu, [PU: Rawat, New Delhi], 48174, Contents Preface. Introduction creativity and narratability/Jasbir Jain. 1. Zindaginama/Krishna Sobti. 2. Some tho… Mehr…

[EAN: 9788131600450], Gebraucht, wie neu, [PU: Rawat, New Delhi], 48174, Contents Preface. Introduction creativity and narratability/Jasbir Jain. 1. Zindaginama/Krishna Sobti. 2. Some thoughts on writing partition and Zindaginama/Krishna Sobti. 3. Partitioned memories/Mohan Kalpana. 4. Traitor to the Taj Mahal/Mohan Kalpana. 5. Midnight's lost children/Begum Anis Kidwai. 6. Weaving black borders Manto and the politics of partition/Harish Narang. 7. Partition as Hijarat and as slave trade reading Intizar Husain's An Unwritten Epic /Sudhir Chandra. 8. The dance of death on the highways of steel reading train journeys in partition stories/Vijaya Singh. 9. Porous boundaries and divided selves/Jasodhara Bagchi. 10. Idiom of the body and individual memory as social text in partition stories/Madhuri Chatterjee. 11. Fractured homelands divided bodies partition narratives from Punjab/Urmil Talwar. 12. Divided blood lines Bapsi Sidhwa's fiction/Nilufer E. Bharucha. 13. Rituals do us part and rituals unite/Veena Singh. 14. Muhajir ki Duniya reality and fantasy in the world of a refugee/Supriya Agarwal. 15. Partition between memory and representation/Bandana Chakrabarty. 16. Between the walls/Nida Fazli. 17. In the high wind/Keki N. Daruwalla. 18. A bunch of Narcissus/Surjit Sarna. 19. Filtered memories oral narratives and partition history a re reading of Borders and Boundaries and the The Other Side of Silence/Usha Bande. 20. The lengthening shadows of the partition Khamosh Pani a plea for humanism/Tripti Jain. 21. Writing Kitne Pakistan compulsion and necessity/Kamleshwar. 22. Customising the body Kamleshwar's Kitne Pakistan/Ameena Kazi Ansari. 23. The impossible search of the fragments/Santosh Gupta. 24. Phir bhi dil hai Hindustani/Mimmy Jain. 25. Against forgetting partitions and the constructs of history memory and nation in Rushdie and Kamleshwar/Avinash Jodha. 26. Living in the city/Asif Farrukhi. 27. Intersection time 1947/Anisur Rahman. 28. Writing trauma and history the self in the world/Jasbir Jain. Contributors. Partition has left deep scars on the national psyche. This one distortion of history with its disjunction between the minds of men and the course of events has gone on to produce other distortions. We are trapped in our histories. It has impacted relationships the notions of homeland and nation erased languages and cultures and given rise to a whole set of questions about self and identity. This volume consisting of an interleaving of fiction memoirs historical and political analysis moves into philosophical and psychological discussions and thus subjects partition to fresh reflection as debates about remembering and forgetting forgiving or persisting with hostilities are carried on. Individual essays and narratives written over nearly five decades represent the viewpoints of three generations across a cross section of society in terms of religions geographical locations and national borders as they move from migrations and uprooting violence and loss to reflect upon the human being in a larger existential framework. Essentially interdisciplinary in nature Reading Partition / Living Partition brings to the reader the work of distinguished writers and scholars of the subcontinent compelling the reader to probe her/his own conscience afresh. 338 pp.<