Partitioned Lives: Narratives of Home, Displacement, and ResettlementPartitioned Lives: Narratives of Home, Displacement, and Resettlement features fifteen essays that focus on personal, subjective experiences of partition, rather than on official accounts. The book analyses fiction, films, and biographical and autobiographical accounts relating to the experience and influence of Partition. It also studies partition-related migrations not only to and from West Pakistan, East Pakistan, and India, but also to the West. Essays discuss how partition continues to influence cultural identities both in the subcontinent and among the diaspora. |
Contents
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Of Love Martyrdom and In Subordination Sikh Experiences of Partition in the Films ShaheedeMohabbat and Gadar Ek Prem Katha | 26 |
The Diminished Man Partition and Transcendental Homelessness | 50 |
Constructing PostPartition Bengali Cultural Identity Through Films | 65 |
Writing Partition Trauma and Testimony in Bapsi Sidhwas Cracking India | 82 |
Partition and PostPartition Acts of Fiction Narrating Painful Histories | 99 |
Growing Up Refugee | 116 |
Crossing the Border in Opposite Directions Two Partition Narratives | 146 |
Fires in the Kangra A British Soldiers Story of Partition | 174 |
Moving Forward Though Still Facing Back Partition and the South Asian Diaspora in Canada | 192 |
Eternal Exiles in the Land of the Pure Mohajirs in Mass Transit | 214 |
Refugee Women Immigrant Women The Partition as Universal Dislocation in Jhumpa Lahiris Interpreter of Maladies | 227 |
SrinagarMuzaffarabadNew York A Kashmiri Familys Exile | 240 |
Against Silence and Forgetting | 255 |
Notes on the Editors and the Contributors | 274 |
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