Machine generated contents note: 15. The aporiac self: Feminine and the poetics of silence in Sabiha Sumar's Khamosh Pant / 1. Political mayhem and the moment of rupture: Bhisham Sahni's Tamas / Sankha Ghosh. 2. Ideology of hatred and the violent making of nations: Khushwant Singh's Train to Pakistan / Shirsendu Mondal -- 3. Partition and the shattered familiar: Bapsi Sidhwa's The Ice-Candy Man / Rupayan Mukherjee -- 4. Saadat Hasan Manto's "Toba Tek Singh": A nation split by trauma and madness / Kritika Nepal -- 5. Translating trauma into sublime: Gulzar's response to Manto's "Toba Tek Singh" / Tuhin Sanyal -- pt. II Memory and mnemonic: of homeland and homelessness -- 6. Politics of memory and the myth of homelessness: Intizar Husain's Basti / Mitarik Barma -- 7. Redrawing the borders of nostalgia: A reading of Ritwik Ghatak's selected short stories / Somasree Sarkar -- 8. Memory of home and the impossibility of return: Reading Jibanananda Das's "I Shall Return to This Bengal" and "I Have Seen Bengal's Face" / Rupayan Mukherjee -- 9. Tracing erasure and re-mapping the memory lane: Partition movies of Ritwik Ghatak / Rajadipta Roy -- 10. From home to homeland: Negotiating memory and displacement in Dibyendu Palit's "Alam's Own House" / Kritika Nepal -- pt. III Body politics: the woman in question -- 11. Decentrification and gendered perspectives in Partition narratives: An analysis of Garm Hava / Shubham Dey -- 12. Honour, woman's body and marginalisation: A study of Amrita Pritam's Pinjar / Anisha Ghosh -- 13. History versus (her)story: A study of Jyotirmoyee Devi's Epar Ganga Opar Ganga / Jaydip Sarkar -- 14. Immanent needs, immediate solutions: Body and reconciliation in Manik Bandopadhyay's "The Final Solution" / Somasree Sarkar -- 15. The aporiac self: Feminine and the poetics of silence in Sabiha Sumar's Khamosh Pant / Sankha Ghosh.
Summary:
"This book studies literary and cinematic representations of the Partition of India. It discusses Partition as not just an immediate historical catastrophe but as a lingering cultural presence and consequently a potent trope in literary and visual representations. The volume features essays on key texts - written and visual - including Train to Pakistan, Toba Tek Singh, Basti, Garm Hava, Pinjar, among others. Partition Literature and Cinema will be indispensable introductory reading for students and researchers of modern Indian history, Partition studies, literature, film studies, media and cultural studies, popular culture and performance, postcolonial studies, and South Asian studies. It will also be of interest to enthusiasts of Indian cinematic history"-- Provided by publisher.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.