A reading of violence in partition stories from Bengal / by Suranjana Choudhury.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Choudhury, Suranjana, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bengali literature--History and criticism.

Bengali literature.

Violence in literature.

Bengal (India)--History--Partition, 1947--In literature.

Bengal (India).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (157 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2020.

Summary:

This book engages with diverse modes of representations of Partition violence and its consequences in a selection of Partition narratives from Bengal. Violence constitutes one of the most obvious images of this traumatic period in Indian history. Its dynamics of representation--the nature of violence, its impact on society and the individual, the forms of its socio cultural and political implanting--invariably highlight the aesthetic sensibility of its writers. The book questions if it is possible to qualify violence with all its complexities, and examines how these narratives offer a critique of historical and political engagements with violence. The experiences of suffering, pain, trauma, affliction, torture, fear and betrayal are also constituted within the structural analysis of violence.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter I

Chapter II

Chapter III

Chapter IV

Notes.

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-5275-5710-3

OCLC:

1178907063