Witnessing Partition: Memory, History, Fiction - Hardcover

Saint, Tarun K.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0367210355 ISBN 13: 9780367210359

Verlag: Routledge India, 2019

Inhaltsangabe

This book deals with the representation of the Partition of India - the experience of trauma and violence - through fiction, literary motifs and narratives, and shows that in examining the nature of such testimony through history, cultural memory has a significant role to play.

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Tarun K. Saint taught English literature for many years at Hindu College, Delhi University, India, and is now an independent scholar and writer. His research interests include the literature of the Partition and science fiction/speculative literature. He edited Bruised Memories: Communal Violence and the Writer (2002) and co-edited (with Ravikant) Translating Partition (2001). He has co-edited the anthology Looking Back: India's Partition, 70 Years On (2017), with Rakhshanda Jalil and Debjani Sengupta. Recently, he has edited The Gollancz Book of South Asian Science Fiction (2019).

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Routledge India
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2019
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0367210355
• ISBN 13: 9780367210359
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 2
• Anzahl der Seiten: 272
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