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Author:   Rini Bhattacharya Mehta (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA) ,  Debali Mookerjea-Leonard (James Madison University, USA)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9780367322199

ISBN 10:   0367322196
Pages:   204
Publication Date:   14 May 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Foreword Introduction Part 1 Surviving Violence 1. Quarantined: Women and the Partition 2. The Extraordinary and the Everyday: Locating Violence in Women’s Narratives of the Partition Part 2: Borders and Belonging 3. Many Pakistans, Half a Village: Interrogating Borders in the Discourse on the Partition of India 4. Fragments of Familiarity: The Bengal Partition in Samaresh Basu’s Short Stories 5. Patriotic Pakistanis, Exiled Poets or Unwelcome Refugees? Three Urdu Poets Write of Partition and Its Aftermath 6. Nation (De)Composed: Ritwik Ghatak, Guru Dutt, Saadat Hasan Manto, and the Shifting Shapes of National Memory Part 3: History, Memory, and Aesthetics 7. Toward a Cognitive Poetics of History: Pinjar, the Rāmāyaṇa, and Partition 8. Representing Partition: Poetics of Emotion in Pinjar 9. Return and Retake: Stardom Meets Post-Partition Trauma in Bengali Cinema

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Rini Bhattacharya Mehta is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and of Religion at the University of Illinois, USA. Mehta’s teaching interests cover both literature and cinema. Her edited volume Bollywood and Globalization was published in 2010; she is currently working on a monograph on Indian cinema. Her articles have been published in Comparative Studies in South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, South Asian History and Culture, and Comparative American Studies. Debali Mookerjea-Leonard is currently Associate Professor of English and World Literature at James Madison University in Virginia, USA. She is a member of the editorial board of Genders. Her recently completed book is titled The Paradox of Independence: Literature, Gender, and the Trauma of Partition. She has contributed to anthologies, and journals including the Journal of Commonwealth Literature, Feminist Review, and Social Text.

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