Jaydip Sarkar and Rupayan Mukherjee, eds. Partition Literature and Cinema: A Critical Introduction
Almost seven decades after the Partition of India in 1947, which Gyanendra Pandey calls “a moment of rupture and genocidal violence” (2004, 1), one witnesses the publication of a plethora of works of fiction which have attempted to reconstruct the event through multiple voices, languages and points...
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| Publicado no: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/ces, |
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| Formato: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Idioma: | Anglais |
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Commonwealth Essays and Studies
2021
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| Acesso em linha: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Resumo: | Almost seven decades after the Partition of India in 1947, which Gyanendra Pandey calls “a moment of rupture and genocidal violence” (2004, 1), one witnesses the publication of a plethora of works of fiction which have attempted to reconstruct the event through multiple voices, languages and points of view. Literature and films on the Partition could indeed be seen as a “site for memorialisation of the human tragedy [which offer] a counter to official histories” (4). The edited volume Partit... |
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