TY - BOOK AU - Sengupta, Jayita, ed. TI - Barbed wire: borders and partitions in South Asia SN - 9780415501507 U1 - 954.14042 PY - 2012/// CY - New Delhi PB - Routledge KW - Literature and history KW - Social conditions KW - India--Bengal KW - Partition of Bengal (India : 1947) KW - South Asia N1 - 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 ER -