Barbed wire: borders and partitions in South Asia/
Barbed wire: borders and partitions in South Asia/
Borders and partitions in South Asia
edited by Jayita Sengupta.
- New Delhi: Routledge, 2012.
- xv, 316 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Part One
Crossings Over: Rememory(ing) the Loss
1. Uprooted /Achintyo Kumar Sengupta
2. 'Hello Khukul' /Indrani Sen
3. Across Boundaries /Anita Das Tandon
4. The Distance to Lahore /Surjit Sama
5. Living the Dream: Narrating a Landscape Lost and a Land Left Behind /Ashes Gupta
6. The Ultimate Dislocation: Migrations, Histories and the Human /Jasbir Jain
Bruised Nation: Tropes of Violence
7. Partition as Leitmotif in the Stories of Sa'adat Hasan Manto /Sreemati Mukherjee
8. The Emblematic Body: Women and Nationalism in Partition Narratives /Himadri Lahiri
9. Holocausts and Human Hearts: A Study of Rajinder Singh Bedi's 'Lajwanti' /Nibir Kumar Ghosh
10. Recalling the 'City of the Dreadful Night': Narratives of Partition -Salil Choudhury, Manas Ray, Helene Cixous /Tutun Mukherjee
Reconstructing Identities: Strategies of Survival
11. Dismemberment and/or Reconstitution: Visual Representations of the Partition of Bengal /Somdatta Mandal
12. Chaos, Dislocation and Problem of Identity in Sunil Gangopadhyay's Arjun /Naina Dey
Part Two
Of Borders, Barbed Wires and the Unending Trail:
Map Makings and Map Makings (The North-East and The East)
13. Of Nation (An Excerpt) /Debashish Tarafdar
14. Thinking and Rethinking Partition in the North-East: Colonial and Post-colonial Assam /Moushumi Dutta Pathak
15. Me and the World of Militants /Indira [Mamoni Raisom) Goswami
16. At the Crossroads: The Representation of Violence
in Contemporary Assamese Poetry /Bibhash Choudhury
17. Locatings /Dilipkanti Laskar
18. Bangladesh: Language Movement and Dhirendranath Datta /Kamaluddin Ahmed
19. Of Bangladesh and East India: Fictional Representation of Violence and Migration after 1947 /Jayita Sengupta
20. People in Quest of a River (Excerpts) /Purabi Bormudoi
21. Pushback /Meenakshi Sen
The Acony of Desire: Kashmir
22. A Brief Overview of the Kashmir Issue /Jayita Sengupta
23. In the Shadow of Militancy: The Diary of an Unknown Kashmiri (Excerpts) /Tej N. Dhar
24. Special Reports from Kashmir /Kavita Suri
Partitions: The Undying Angst
25. Partition Ghazal Keki N. Daruwalla
26. Criminal /Jilani Bano
27. Kamaleshwar's Kitne Pakistan and the Metaphors of Partition /Ameena Kazi Ansari
9780415501507
Literature and history
Social conditions
India--Bengal
Partition of Bengal (India : 1947)
South Asia
954.14042 / SEN/B
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Part One
Crossings Over: Rememory(ing) the Loss
1. Uprooted /Achintyo Kumar Sengupta
2. 'Hello Khukul' /Indrani Sen
3. Across Boundaries /Anita Das Tandon
4. The Distance to Lahore /Surjit Sama
5. Living the Dream: Narrating a Landscape Lost and a Land Left Behind /Ashes Gupta
6. The Ultimate Dislocation: Migrations, Histories and the Human /Jasbir Jain
Bruised Nation: Tropes of Violence
7. Partition as Leitmotif in the Stories of Sa'adat Hasan Manto /Sreemati Mukherjee
8. The Emblematic Body: Women and Nationalism in Partition Narratives /Himadri Lahiri
9. Holocausts and Human Hearts: A Study of Rajinder Singh Bedi's 'Lajwanti' /Nibir Kumar Ghosh
10. Recalling the 'City of the Dreadful Night': Narratives of Partition -Salil Choudhury, Manas Ray, Helene Cixous /Tutun Mukherjee
Reconstructing Identities: Strategies of Survival
11. Dismemberment and/or Reconstitution: Visual Representations of the Partition of Bengal /Somdatta Mandal
12. Chaos, Dislocation and Problem of Identity in Sunil Gangopadhyay's Arjun /Naina Dey
Part Two
Of Borders, Barbed Wires and the Unending Trail:
Map Makings and Map Makings (The North-East and The East)
13. Of Nation (An Excerpt) /Debashish Tarafdar
14. Thinking and Rethinking Partition in the North-East: Colonial and Post-colonial Assam /Moushumi Dutta Pathak
15. Me and the World of Militants /Indira [Mamoni Raisom) Goswami
16. At the Crossroads: The Representation of Violence
in Contemporary Assamese Poetry /Bibhash Choudhury
17. Locatings /Dilipkanti Laskar
18. Bangladesh: Language Movement and Dhirendranath Datta /Kamaluddin Ahmed
19. Of Bangladesh and East India: Fictional Representation of Violence and Migration after 1947 /Jayita Sengupta
20. People in Quest of a River (Excerpts) /Purabi Bormudoi
21. Pushback /Meenakshi Sen
The Acony of Desire: Kashmir
22. A Brief Overview of the Kashmir Issue /Jayita Sengupta
23. In the Shadow of Militancy: The Diary of an Unknown Kashmiri (Excerpts) /Tej N. Dhar
24. Special Reports from Kashmir /Kavita Suri
Partitions: The Undying Angst
25. Partition Ghazal Keki N. Daruwalla
26. Criminal /Jilani Bano
27. Kamaleshwar's Kitne Pakistan and the Metaphors of Partition /Ameena Kazi Ansari
9780415501507
Literature and history
Social conditions
India--Bengal
Partition of Bengal (India : 1947)
South Asia
954.14042 / SEN/B