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This collection explores the continuing cultural, political, and social impact of the Partition on India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and in the South Asian diaspora. It focuses on neglected areas in the existing scholarship on the subjects-themes as well as regions within South Asia-that illustrates Vazira Zamindar's idea of a "Long Partition."
List of contents
Introduction
Section I: Approaches to Partition
Chapter 1. "Specters of Democracy/The Gender of Specters: Cultural Memory and the Indian Partition" - Radhika Mohanram
Chapter 2. "Lost Homes, Shifting Borders and the Search For Belonging" - Jasbir Jain
Chapter 3. "A Will to Say or Unsay: Female Silences and Discursive Interventions in Partition Narratives" - Parvinder Mehta
Chapter 4. "Migrations in Absentia: Multinational Digital Advertising and Manipulation of Partition Trauma - Rahul. K. Gairola
Section II: Nations and Narrations
Chapter 5. "Exorcizing the Ghosts of Times Past: Partition Memoirs as Testimony" - Tarun K. Saint
Chapter 6. "Difficult Choices: Work, Family, and Displaced Women in Partition Writings" - Debali Mookerjea-Leonard
Chapter 7. "Refugees as Homo Sacers: Partition and the National Imaginary in The Hungry Tide" - Amrita Ghosh
Section III. Borders and Borderlands
Chapter 8. "Property, Violence and Displacement: Partition in Sindh" - Nandita Bhavnani
Chapter 9. "The Long Shadow of 1947: Partition, Violence and Displacement in Jammu and Kashmir" - Ilyas Chattha
Chapter 10. "From Frontiers to Borders: Partition and the Production of Marginal Spaces in North East India" - Babyrani Yumnam
Chapter 11. "Looking East: Melodramatic Narrative, Ecotheater and the 'Forgotten Long March' in Jangam." - Amit R. Baishya
Section IV. From Pakistan to Bangladesh
Chapter 12. "The Never-Ending Partition: Pakistan's Self-Identification Dilemma"- Amber Fatima Riaz
Chapter 13. "Partition and the Bangladeshi Literary Response" - Kaiser Haq
Chapter 14. "Cosmopolitan Aesthetics in Shakeel Adil Zada's Baazigar"- Masood A. Raja
Chapter 15. "The Nexus of Class, Identity and Politics in the Representational Economy of Partition: The Case of Hasan Azizul Huq" - Mohd. Rezaul Haque
Chapter 16. "Partition and Beyond: Intizar Husain's Quest for Meaning and Vision" - Tasneem Shahnaaz and Amritjit Singh
Section V. Partitions Within
Chapter 17. "Buckle in the Hindu Belt: Contemporary Hindu-Muslim Violence and the Legacy of Partition in Banaras" - Jeremy A. Rinker
Chapter 18. "Hyderabad, Partition, and Hindutva: Strategic Revisitings in Neelkanth's 'Durga' (2005)" - Nazia Akhtar
Chapter 19. "Partition's Others: The View from South India" - Nalini Iyer
About the author
Amritjit Singh is Langston Hughes Professor of English & African American Studies
at Ohio University.
Nalini Iyer is professor of English at Seattle University.
Rahul K. Gairola is assistant professor of English and comparative literature at the
Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Uttarakhand, India.
Summary
This collection explores the continuing cultural, political, and social impact of the Partition on India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and in the South Asian diaspora. It focuses on neglected areas in the existing scholarship on the subjects—themes as well as regions within South Asia—that illustrates Vazira Zamindar’s idea of a “Long Partition.”
