Tarun K Saint

Witnessing Partition

Memory, History, Fiction

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book deals with the representation of the Partition of India - the experience of trauma and violence - through fiction, literary motifs and narratives, and shows that in examining the nature of such testimony through history, cultural memory has a significant role to play.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• 2nd edition
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. August 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 386g
• ISBN-13: 9780367210366
• ISBN-10: 0367210363
• Artikelnr.: 57599181

Autorenporträt

Tarun K. Saint taught English literature for many years at Hindu College, Delhi University, India, and is now an independent scholar and writer. His research interests include the literature of the Partition and science fiction/speculative literature. He edited Bruised Memories: Communal Violence and the Writer (2002) and co-edited (with Ravikant) Translating Partition (2001). He has co-edited the anthology Looking Back: India's Partition, 70 Years On (2017), with Rakhshanda Jalil and Debjani Sengupta. Recently, he has edited The Gollancz Book of South Asian Science Fiction (2019).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Negotiating the Effects of Historical Trauma: Novels of the
1940s and 1950s 2. Partition's Afterlife: Perspectives from the 1960s and
1970s 3. Narrativising the 'Time of Partition': Writings since 1980 4.
Short Stories about the Partition: Towards a Self-Reflexive Mode of
Testimony 5. Reinventing Testimonial Fiction in the Wake of the Partition.
Afterword