A Reading of Violence in Partition Stories from Bengal
Title | A Reading of Violence in Partition Stories from Bengal PDF eBook |
Author | Suranjana Choudhury |
Publisher | Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Pages | 157 |
Release | 2020-07-20 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1527557103 |
This book engages with diverse modes of representations of Partition violence and its consequences in a selection of Partition narratives from Bengal. Violence constitutes one of the most obvious images of this traumatic period in Indian history. Its dynamics of representation—the nature of violence, its impact on society and the individual, the forms of its socio cultural and political implanting—invariably highlight the aesthetic sensibility of its writers. The book questions if it is possible to qualify violence with all its complexities, and examines how these narratives offer a critique of historical and political engagements with violence. The experiences of suffering, pain, trauma, affliction, torture, fear and betrayal are also constituted within the structural analysis of violence.
Bengal Partition Stories
Title | Bengal Partition Stories PDF eBook |
Author | Bashabi Fraser |
Publisher | Anthem Press |
Pages | 640 |
Release | 2021-10-05 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 184331357X |
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.
Reconstructing the Bengal Partition
Title | Reconstructing the Bengal Partition PDF eBook |
Author | Jayanti Basu |
Publisher | |
Pages | 284 |
Release | 2013-06-12 |
Genre | Bengal (India) |
ISBN | 9788190676090 |
A psychological study of the Bengal Partition, a traumatic time that continues to resonate. Why has it been so hard for Bengal to recover from this catastrophe, shared with the people of Punjab, who faced much more brutal and horrendous violence over a short period? Was it due to very different historical circumstances? The refugees were targets of soft violence, an extreme form of mental assault that chilled them with fear till they fled. They could not tell whether old friends had become new foes. Were they imagining this or perhaps it was a true reading of the situation? Departures were spread over many years, preventing a sharper break with the past, prolonging their confusion over identity, the grief of being uprooted, of feeling unwelcome in the truncated state of West Bengal. The author interviews a number of respondents who were young children or adolescents from the bhadralok, the educated section of society, to gauge their understanding of Partition and how it affects their lives. She uses the insights of psychoanalysis and cognitive psychology. Alan Roland, the distinguished psychoanalyst, talks of how the depth of these interviews and Basus psychological understanding of each person give a new understanding of memory and the reconstruction of Partition in peoples mind.
The Refugee Woman
Title | The Refugee Woman PDF eBook |
Author | Paulomi Chakraborty |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 399 |
Release | 2018-07-27 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN | 0199095396 |
The Refugee Woman examines the Partition of 1947 by engaging with the cultural imagination of the ‘refugee woman’ in West Bengal, particularly in three significant texts of the Partition of Bengal—Ritwik Ghatak’s film Meghe Dhaka Tara; and two novels, Jyotirmoyee Devi’s Epar Ganga, Opar Ganga and Sabitri Roy’s Swaralipi. It shows that the figure of the refugee woman, animated by the history of the political left and refugee movements, and shaped by powerful cultural narratives, can contest and reconstitute the very political imagination of ‘woman’ that emerged through the long history of dominant cultural nationalisms. The reading it offers elucidates some of the complexities of nationalist, communal, and communist gender-politics of a key period in post-independence Bengal.
The Partition of Bengal
Title | The Partition of Bengal PDF eBook |
Author | Debjani Sengupta |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 288 |
Release | 2015-10-22 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1316673871 |
This study looks at the rich literature that has been spawned through the historical imagination of Bengali-speaking writers in West Bengal and Bangladesh through issues of homelessness, migration and exile to see how the Partition of Bengal in 1947 has thrown a long shadow over memories and cultural practices. Through a rich trove of literary and other materials, the book lays bare how the Partition has been remembered or how it has been forgotten. For the first time, hitherto untranslated archival materials and texts in Bangla have been put together to assess the impact of 1947 on the cultural memory of Bangla-speaking peoples and communities. This study contends that there is not one but many smaller partitions that women and men suffered, each with its own textures of pain, guilt and affirmation.
The Great Partition
Title | The Great Partition PDF eBook |
Author | Yasmin Khan |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Pages | 285 |
Release | 2017-07-04 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0300233647 |
A reappraisal of the tumultuous Partition and how it ignited long-standing animosities between India and Pakistan This new edition of Yasmin Khan’s reappraisal of the tumultuous India-Pakistan Partition features an introduction reflecting on the latest research and on ways in which commemoration of the Partition has changed, and considers the Partition in light of the current refugee crisis. Reviews of the first edition: “A riveting book on this terrible story.”—Economist “Unsparing. . . . Provocative and painful.”—Times (London) “Many histories of Partition focus solely on the elite policy makers. Yasmin Khan’s empathetic account gives a great insight into the hopes, dreams, and fears of the millions affected by it.”—Owen Bennett Jones, BBC
The Tragic Partition of Bengal
Title | The Tragic Partition of Bengal PDF eBook |
Author | Suniti Kumar Ghosh |
Publisher | |
Pages | 444 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Bengal (India) |
ISBN |
ISSA Silver Jubilee millennium lectures delivered by the author.