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The Indian Partition in Literature and Films: History, Politics, and Aesthetics

The Indian Partition in Literature and Films: History, Politics, and Aesthetics

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Contemporary South Asia

Literary CriticismAsian American StudiesGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1138781800
ISBN13: 9781138781801
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Dec 17 2014
Pages: 204
Weight: 0.95
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.20
Language: English

This book presents an examination of fictional representations, in books and films, of the 1947 Partition that led to the creation of the sovereign nation-states of India and Pakistan. It provides critical readings of literary and cinematic texts on the impact of the Partition both in the Punjab and in Bengal. The collection assembles studies on Anglophone writings with those on the largely unexplored vernacular works, and those which have rarely found a place in discussions on the Partition. Collectively, the essays present a nuanced understanding of how the experience of violence, displacement, and trauma shaped postcolonial societies and subjectivities in the Indian subcontinent.

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