Dialogue on Partition - Literature Knows No Borders

Dialogue on Partition shows how shared time and space as depicted in partition literature can foster dialogue despite separation and relocation. By incorporating the multiple and eclectic perspectives of characters, narrators, writers, and historians, art and literature can be used as tools of integration between sects, religions and differences.

List of contents

Chapter I: Dialogization of Identities in Bapsi Sidhwa's Ice-Candy-Man
Chapter II: The Heteroglot World in Khushwant Singh's Train to Pakistan
Chapter III: Chronotopal Movement in Anita Desai's Clear Light of Day
Chapter IV: The Coexistence of Polyphonic Voices in Mehr Nigar Masroor's Shadows of Time
Chapter V: Creation of Dialogic Paradigms

About the author

Syrrina Ahsan Ali Haque is assistant professor of English at the University of Lahore.

Product details

• Authors: Syrrina Ahsan Haque, Syrrina Ahsan Ali Haque
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2021
• EAN: 9781793636249
• ISBN: 978-1-79363-624-9
• No. of pages: 188
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Politics, LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Indic, India, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, Literature: history & criticism