Narrating Partition - Texts, Interpretations, Ideas

Narrating Partition - Texts, Interpretations, Ideas

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Author: Sukrita Paul Kumar
Publisher: Indialog Publications
Year: 2004
Language: English
Pages: 196
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8187981628

Description

The subcontinent was divided decades ago. But Partition harvest of pain, violence and trauma continues to haunt us even today. In literature, as in life, its spectre rises time and again from the ashes of 1947, igniting memory as it locates itself in communal tension and rioting crowds. Metaphors and fictive narratives grapple with the human indulgence in bestial violence and navigate through varied psychological and emotional terrain. The nostalgia for the 'perfect' past, the battle with the present moment as a lived routinised catastrophe, and an acute anxiety about renewal and restored vitality are some of the concerns of the texts, chosen for study in this book.

This volume of essays is a step towards evolving critical perspectives over a large body of literature now available in this area, a literature with its own poetics. This literary repertoire calls for the consolidation of critical tools relevant to its own context. Essays in this book discuss the connection between Partition and Literary modernism, cultural reorientations, the issue of Hindi-Urdu politics, 'remembering' of women survivors, macro-visions of Partitions in some novels - all this through an intimate critiquing of the works of such writers like Qurratulain Hyder, Intizar Husain, Kamleshwar, Joginder Paul, Bhisham Sahni, Abdullah Hussein and many others.

Contents

INTRODUCTION

SECTION I
MACROVISIONS: INTERROGATING PARTITION

Amma, Basant Kya Hota Hai?
Turns of Centuries in Qurratulain Hyder's Aag K Dariya

Partitions as Pakistans: Kamleshwar's Kitne Pakistan

Sadness Retold: Abdullah Hussein's The Weary Generations

SECTION II
NARRATING PARTITION: MEMORY INTO METAPHOR

Intrduction

Critiquing Partition Narratives: In Search of Tools and Lenses

De-troping the Muslim:
A Review of Image and Representation - Stories of Muslim Lives in India

On Narrativsing Partition

Translating India as the Other:
Partition and After

SECTION III
RAPE AS PARTITION

Re-membering Woman:
Partition, Gender and Reorientations

Androgyny in Search of Modernity

SECTION IV
THROUGH PARTITION: HINDI-URDU AND ENGLISH

Introduction

In and Out of Partition: The Hindi-Urdu Story

In Midstream:
The Urdu Short Story in India and Pakistan

Negotiating the Original:
Language/Culture Interface in English in India

SECTION V
CONVERSATIONS

Introduction

Bhisham Sahni
Kamleshwar
Gulzar

Bibliography