1st Edition
Narratives of Loss and Longing Literary Developments in Postcolonial South Asia
CONTENTS
Author Biographies
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Nukhbah Taj Langah and Roshni Sengupta
Recontextualizing Partition Trauma through Literature
1.Trauma and Identity Crisis in the Partition Fiction by Sa’adat Hassan Manto and Joginder Paul
Roshni Sengupta and Nukhbah Taj Langah
2. A Powerful Sense of Inhabitance: Lyric, Memory, and Enduring Community in South Asia
Rituparna Mitra
3. Being in Partition: Ontology of a Post-Partition Self
Mahrukh Nishat
4.“The Bridge of Words”: Post-Partition Reflection in Contemporary Urdu Writing from Pakistan
Kamila Junik
Feminist Observations
5. Narrating Rape and Resistance: Tracing the Trajectories of Birangona in Rizia Rahman’s Letters of Blood
Goutam Karmakar
Minorities and Marginality
6. Dalit Migrant Reminiscences from Bengal
Aditi Mukherjee
7. The Symbol of Sufi Shrines in Basharat Peer’s Curfewed Nights: One Kashmiri Journalist’s Frontline Account Life, Love and War in his Homeland
Nukhbah Taj Langah and Fatima Syeda
Vernacular History
8. Tracing the Vernacular Histories of Partition: Reading P. Kesavadev’s Bhranthalayam as a Partition Narrative in Malayalam
Neethu Prasad
Bengali Literary Representations
9. Narrating History, Constructing Memories: Mapping the ‘Third Space’ through Cultural Negotiations in Post-Partition Bangladesh
Md. Rakibul Alam and Abdullah Al Mamun
10. Re-thinking Cosmopolitanism / Re-reading Tagore
Srobana Bhattacharya and Roudy Hildreth
11. Challenging Borders: A Selective Study of Bashabi Fraser’s Poetry
Saptarshi Mallick
Post-Partition Artistic and Literary Representations
12. In hindsight: Pehalwans, Courtesans and the Promise of Democracy in Musharraf Ali Farooqi’s Between Clay and Dust
Sumaya Makhdoom
Conclusion
Nukhbah Taj Langah and Roshni Sengupta
Index
Biography
Nukhbah Taj Langah is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of English (Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences) University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Roshni Sengupta is an Associate Professor at the School of Liberal Studies, University of Petroleum and Energy Studies (UPES), India.
