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This book brings together conversations about the Partition and its haunting residues in the present as represented in literary, visual, oral, and material cultures of the subcontinent and beyond. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of
South Asian Review.
List of contents
Introduction: The Partition at 75+
1. Grooving on at Seventy-Five: Shah Rukh Khan, Salman Rushdie, and the Indian Muslim's Ecstatic Return
2. "Ancestral Voices Prophesying War": Investigating the Legacy of the 1947 Partition in the 21st-Century Indian Cultural Imagination of Nuclear War
3. Retooling Trauma: Partition as Celebratory Nationalism in Neoliberal Metropolitan Cinema
4. Materializing the Memory: The Shawl in Partition Narratives
5. Death and Life in the Bordersand: On the Queer Remembrance of Partition through Geetanjali Shree's
Tomb of Sand 6. "The Story of Our Shame": Confronting the Silenced 'Bihari' Other in Mahmud Rahman's "Kerosene"
7. Hypereventing History: Ecological and Political Disaster in Bengali Dalit Narratives on Partition
8. Synchronizing the
Dalan, Chandal Aesthetics and
Namashudrayan in Manoranjan Byapari's Autobiography
Interrogating My Chandal Life 9. Partition in Bangla Little Magazines: Trajectories of Politics and Culture
10. Entangled by Borders: Bodies, Citizenship, and Gender in Assam
11. Descendants of a Difficult Past: Narratives of the Sindhi Partition Refugees in Bangalore
About the author
Nalini Iyer is Professor of English at Seattle University and Chief Editor of
South Asian Review. Among her numerous publications is the co-edited book
Revisiting India's Partition: New Essays in Memory, Culture, and Politics.Debali Mookerjea-Leonard is Roop Distinguished Professor of English at James Madison University, Harrisonburg, USA. She is the author of
Literature, Gender, and the Trauma of Partition: The Paradox of Independence. She also translates Bengali poetry and fiction, including Sunil Gangopadhyay's
Blood and Bani Basu's
The Continents Between.
Summary
This book brings together conversations about the Partition and its haunting residues in the present as represented in literary, visual, oral, and material cultures of the subcontinent and beyond. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of South Asian Review.
