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Crossing Over: Stories of Partition from India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh (Manoa: A Pacific Journal of International Writing, 11)

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University of Hawaii Press

Date de parution

2007

Langue

anglais

ISBN � 10 chiffres

0824832272

ISBN � 13 chiffres

9780824832278

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Couverture souple

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Good

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For nearly a century, Britain ruled the SouthAsian subcontinent from the Arabian Seato the Bay of Bengal. After World War II, however, the vast Indian colony becameungovernable from London and the Britishhastily departed, leaving behind conditionsthat led to communal rioting and unfathomableviolence. In the midnight hours ofAugust 14, 1947, as hastily drawn borderscarved the region into the independentnations of Pakistan and India, more thana million people fled across the lines ofPartition in both directions. In 1971, whencivil war transformed East Pakistan into theindependent nation of Bangladesh, communalviolence erupted again. The horrors ofPartition did not end with the migrationsand resettlements of 1947 and 1971, however.On several occasions, open warfare hasbroken out between Pakistan and India.Kashmir s borders remain in dispute, andacross the region, rioting continues to erupt.

The stories in Crossing Over depict theresponses and emotions of ordinary peoplecaught in the tragedy of Partition, whentolerance, respect, and compassion brokedown. Written by some of the region s finestauthors in Hindi, Urdu, Bengali, andEnglish these works make us aware of thepossible responses to ethnic, religious, andnational divisiveness. Reading the literatureof Partition is bound to arouse comparisonswith situations in other parts of the world, where sectarian violence seems unstoppableand solutions intractable. Where will we findthe wisdom to create a new future? CrossingOver suggests some answers and the consequencesif we fail.

Authors include Abul Bashar, SamareshBasu, Rajinder Singh Bedi, Urvashi Butalia, Gulzar, Rashid Haider, Intizar Husain, Kamleshwar, Saadat Hasan Manto, KhadijaMastur, Joginder Paul, Mohan Rakesh, Prafulla Roy, and Bhisham Sahni. Periodphotographs from a Karachi family albumillustrate the effects of Partition on a GoanCatholic community.

� propos de l?auteur

Frank Stewart is a writer, translator, and founding editor of Mānoa: A Pacific Journal of International Writing. He is professor emeritus of English at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.

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