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Bengal Partition Stories - An Unclosed Chapter

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Informationen zum Autor Dr Bashabi Fraser is currently a Lecturer in English Literature at Napier University and an Honorary Fellow at Edinburgh University. Klappentext Through oral histories, interviews and fictional retellings, 'Bengal Partition Stories' unearths and articulates the collective memories of a people traumatised by the brutal division of their homeland. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements; Foreword; Introduction; About the Translation; About the Stories; The maps: ii) India before 14/15 August 1947; iii) India, Bangladesh and Pakistan Today; iv) Undivided Begal; v) West Bengal and Bangladesh Today; The Authors and Their Stories; Poem: 'Mob Fury'; The Stories: The Solution; The Protector; Insignificance; The Saviour; The Ledger; Treaty; Loss; Infidel; Boatman, Honour, In a Place and in a Land; Here and There; Hindu; Acharya Kripalani Colony; The Crossing; A Thorn in the Path, Alien Land; The Border; India; Poem: 'An Abducted Woman: The Loot'; Illegitimate; Home, Sweet Home!; The Stricken Daughter; Embrace; Kings Come and Kings Go, The Story of Sonadas Baul; Of Ram and Rahim; Looking Back; Refugee; The Debt of a Generation; If; Another Tune in Another Room; Alam's Own House; Three Generations; Rehabilitation; The Girl was Innocent; Infiltration; Deliverance; Tagore; Wild-Goose Country, Poem: 'This Border'; The Translators, The Authors, Bibliography, Glossary

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Authors Bashabi Fraser
Assisted by Bashabi Fraser (Editor), Fraser Bashabi (Editor)
Publisher Anthem Press
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 10.03.2008
 
EAN 9781843312994
ISBN 978-1-84331-299-4
No. of pages 640
Series Anthem South Asian Studies
Subjects Fiction > Narrative literature
Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories

20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, India, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Asian History, HISTORY / Asia / South / India

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