Postmemory and the Partition of India - Learning to Remember

This book examines the memories of the Partition of India in 1947 with a focus on the generation of postmemory (those who came after it) and how partition experiences have been shared (or not) and understood. It explores the formal and narrative properties of different memory practices that have been built around the partition, and the methods of oral historians involved in collecting testimonies as part of the 1947 Berkeley partition archive.

List of contents

1 Learning to Remember.-2.Partition Postmemory.-3.Hospitality and Loss.-4.Nostalgia..- 5.Collecting Memory.- 6.Preserving Memory.- Conclusion

About the author

Shuchi Kapila is Professor in the Department of English at Grinnell College, USA, where she teaches postcolonial literature from Africa, the Caribbean, South Asia. Her book Educating Seeta: The Anglo-Indian Family Romance and the Poetics of Indirect Rule was published in 2010.

Product details

• Authors: Shuchi Kapila
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.02.2024
• EAN: 9783031433962
• ISBN: 978-3-0-3143396-2
• No. of pages: 149
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 15 mm x 220 mm
• Weight: 343 g
• Illustrations: XI, 149 p. 2 illus.
• Series: Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries