Includes bibliographical references and index Radhika Mohanram: Specters of democracy/the gender of specters : cultural memory and the Indian partition Jasbir Jain: Lost homes, shifting borders and the search for belonging Parvinder Mehta: A will to say or unsay : female silences and discursive interventions in partition narratives Rahul. K. Gairola: Migrations in absentia : multinational digital advertising and manipulation of partition trauma Tarun K. Saint: Exorcizing the ghosts of times past : partition memoirs as testimony Debali Mookerjea-Leonard: Difficult choices : work, family, and displaced women in partition writings Amrita Ghosh: Refugees as Homo sacers : partition and the national imaginary in The hungry tide Nandita Bhavnani: Property, violence and displacement : partition in Sindh Ilyas Chattha: The long shadow of 1947 : partition, violence and displacement in Jammu and Kashmir Babyrani Yumnam: From frontiers to borders : partition and the production of marginal spaces in north east India Amit R. Baishya: Looking east : melodramatic narrative, ecotheater and the "forgotten long march" in Jangam Amber Fatima Riaz: The never-ending partition : Pakistan's self-identification dilemma Kaiser Haq: Partition and the Bangladeshi literary response Masood A. Raja: Cosmopolitan aesthetics in Shakeel Adil Zada's Baazigar Mohd. Rezaul Haque: The nexus of class, identity and politics in the representational economy of partition : the case of Hasan Azizul Huq Tasneem Shahnaaz and Amritjit Singh: Partition and beyond : Intizar Husain's quest for meaning and vision Jeremy A. Rinker: Buckle in the Hindu Belt : contemporary Hindu-Muslim violence and the legacy of partition in Banaras Nazia Akhtar: Hyderabad, partition, and Hindutva : strategic revisitings in Neelkanth's "Durga" (2005) Nalini Iyer: Partition's others : the view from South India Section I. Approaches to partition -- Specters of democracy/the gender of specters : cultural memory and the Indian partition / Radhika Mohanram -- Lost homes, shifting borders and the search for belonging / Jasbir Jain -- A will to say or unsay : female silences and discursive interventions in partition narratives / Parvinder Mehta -- Migrations in absentia : multinational digital advertising and manipulation of partition trauma / Rahul. K. Gairola -- Section II. Nations and narrations -- Exorcizing the ghosts of times past : partition memoirs as testimony / Tarun K. Saint -- Difficult choices : work, family, and displaced women in partition writings / Debali Mookerjea-Leonard -- Refugees as Homo sacers : partition and the national imaginary in The hungry tide / Amrita Ghosh -- Section III. Borders and borderlands -- Property, violence and displacement : partition in Sindh / Nandita Bhavnani -- The long shadow of 1947 : partition, violence and displacement in Jammu and Kashmir / Ilyas Chattha -- From frontiers to borders : partition and the production of marginal spaces in north east India / Babyrani Yumnam -- Looking east : melodramatic narrative, ecotheater and the "forgotten long march" in Jangam / Amit R. Baishya -- Section IV. From Pakistan to Bangladesh -- The never-ending partition : Pakistan's self-identification dilemma / Amber Fatima Riaz -- Partition and the Bangladeshi literary response / Kaiser Haq -- Cosmopolitan aesthetics in Shakeel Adil Zada's Baazigar / Masood A. Raja -- The nexus of class, identity and politics in the representational economy of partition : the case of Hasan Azizul Huq / Mohd. Rezaul Haque -- Partition and beyond : Intizar Husain's quest for meaning and vision / Tasneem Shahnaaz and Amritjit Singh -- Section V. Partitions within -- Buckle in the Hindu Belt : contemporary Hindu-Muslim violence and the legacy of partition in Banaras / Jeremy A. Rinker -- Hyderabad, partition, and Hindutva : strategic revisitings in Neelkanth's "Durga" (2005) / Nazia Akhtar -- Partition's others : the view from South India / Nalini Iyer |
