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Witnessing Partition - Couverture souple

Saint, Tarun K.

 
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Synopsis

This book deals with the representation of the Partition of India - the experience of trauma and violence - through fiction, literary motifs and narratives, and shows that in examining the nature of such testimony through history, cultural memory has a significant role to play.

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À propos de l'auteur

Tarun K. Saint taught English literature for many years at Hindu College, Delhi University, India, and is now an independent scholar and writer. His research interests include the literature of the Partition and science fiction/speculative literature. He edited Bruised Memories: Communal Violence and the Writer (2002) and co-edited (with Ravikant) Translating Partition (2001). He has co-edited the anthology Looking Back: India's Partition, 70 Years On (2017), with Rakhshanda Jalil and Debjani Sengupta. Recently, he has edited The Gollancz Book of South Asian Science Fiction (2019).

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