Memories and postmemories of the partition of India / Anjali Gera Roy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Roy, Anjali Gera, author.

Series:

Routledge studies in South Asian history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Politics and culture.

Memory--Political aspects.

Memory--Social aspects.

Memory.

Collective memory.

Social conditions.

India--History--Partition, 1947.

India.

History.

South Asia--Politics and government.

South Asia.

Politics and government.

South Asia--Social conditions.

Collective memory--South Asia.

Memory--Social aspects--South Asia.

Memory--Political aspects--South Asia.

Politics and culture--South Asia.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xi, 248 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2020.

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"-- Provided by publisher.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781138580282

1138580287

OCLC:

1083575581

Publisher Number:

99981981652