1st Edition
The Indian Partition in Literature and Films History, Politics, and Aesthetics
Foreword by Antoinette Burton Introduction Rini Bhattacharya Mehta and Debali Mookerjea-Leonard Part 1 Surviving Violence 1. Quarantined: Women and the Partition Debali Mookerjea-Leonard 2. The Extraordinary and the Everyday: Locating Violence in Women’s Narratives of the Partition Shumona Dasgupta Part 2: Borders and Belonging 3. Many Pakistans, Half a Village: Interrogating Borders in the Discourse on the Partition of India Ipsita Chanda 4. Fragments of Familiarity: The Bengal Partition in Samaresh Basu’s Short Stories Sudipta Sen 5. Patriotic Pakistanis, Exiled Poets or Unwelcome Refugees? Three Urdu Poets Write of Partition and Its Aftermath Laurel Steele 6. Nation (De)Composed: Ritwik Ghatak, Guru Dutt, Saadat Hasan Manto, and the Shifting Shapes of National Memory Nandini Bhattacharya Part 3: History, Memory, and Aesthetics 7. Toward a Cognitive Poetics of History: Pinjar, the Rāmāyaṇa, and Partition Patrick Colm Hogan 8. Representing Partition: Poetics of Emotion in Pinjar Lalita Pandit Hogan 9. Return and Retake: Stardom Meets Post-Partition Trauma in Bengali Cinema Rini Bhattacharya Mehta
Biography
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.
