Bengal Partition Stories - An Unclosed Chapter

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

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Bashabi Fraser
• Con la collaborazione di: Bashabi Fraser (Editore), Fraser Bashabi (Editore)
• Editore: Anthem Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 10.03.2008
• EAN: 9781843312994
• ISBN: 978-1-84331-299-4
• Pagine: 640
• Serie: Anthem South Asian Studies
• Categorie: Narrativa > Romanzi; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > Storia dei paesi e delle regioni; 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, India, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Asian History, HISTORY / Asia / South / India