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020			_a9781138781801
028			_aInternational Book Distributors _bFlat No. 17, Prakash Apartments, Ansari Road, Daryaganj, New Delhi-110002. _c112601 _d26/07/2018.
082			_a820.9954 MEH
100			_aRini Bhattacharya Mehta _a; Debali Mookerjea-Leonard.
245			_aThe Indian partition in literature and films _b: history, politics, and aesthetics. _c/ Rini Bhattacharya Mehta.
260			_aLondon _b: Routledge _c, 2015.
300			_axviii,185p. _c:24cm.
365			_b10450
505			_aPt. 1. Surviving violence -- pt. 2. Borders and belonging -- pt. 3. History, memory, and aesthetics.
520			_a"This book presents an examination of fictional representations, in books and films, of the 1947 Partition that led to the creation of the sovereign nation-states of India and Pakistan. While the process of representing the Partition experience through words and images began in the late 1940s, it is only in the last few decades that literary critics and film scholars have begun to analyse the work. The emerging critical scholarship on the Partition and its aftermath has deepened our understanding of the relationship between historical trauma, collective memory, and cultural processes, and this book provides critical readings of literary and cinematic texts on the impact of the Partition both in the Punjab and in Bengal. The collection assembles studies on Anglophone writings with those on the largely unexplored vernacular works, and those which have rarely found a place in discussions on the Partition. It looks at representations of women's experiences of gendered violence in the Partition riots, and how literary texts have filled in the lack of the 'human dimension' in Partition histories. The book goes on to highlight how the memory of the Partition is preserved, and how the creative arts' relation to public memory and its place within the public sphere has changed through time. Collectively, the essays present a nuanced understanding of how the experience of violence, displacement, and trauma shaped postcolonial societies and subjectivities in the Indian subcontinent. Mapping the diverse topographies of Partition-related uncertainties and covering both well-known and lesser-known texts on the Partition, this book will be a useful contribution to studies of South Asian History, Asian Literature and Asian Film"
655			_aLiterature. _bHistory and criticism. _bPartition, Territorial, in literature. _bMotion pictures.
700			_aRini Bhattacharya Mehta.
942			_cBOOK