Partition and the Practice of Memory

Partition and the Practice of Memory

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Mahn, Churnjeet (Editor), Murphy, Anne (Editor)
Summary:XV, 280 p. 12 illus. in color.
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Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
Edition:1st ed. 2018.
Subjects:
Asia > History.
Collective memory.
Civilization > History.
Social history.
History of South Asia.
Memory Studies.
Cultural History.
Social History.
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64516-2
Format: Electronic Book
Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1: Introduction; Churnjeet Mahn and Anne Murphy (editors)
  • Section 1: Commemoration in the Everyday
  • Chapter 2: Music and its Many Memories: Complicating 1947 for the Punjab; Radha Kapuria (King's College London, PhD Candidate)
  • Chapter 3: From Udero lal in Sindh to Ulhasnagar in Maharashtra: Partition and memories across borders in the tradition of Jhulelal; Michel Boivin (Director of Research at National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) & Member, Centre for South Asian Studies (CEIAS)) & Bhavna Rajpal (University of Westminster, PhD Candidate)
  • Chapter 4: Between Mini-India and Sonar Bangla: Memorialisation and Place-Making Practices of East Bengal Hindu Refugees in the Andaman Islands; Philipp Zehmisch (Center for Advanced Studies, Munich, Research Fellow)
  • Section 2: The Archive and the Literary
  • Chapter 5: The Story of Partition at the Intersection of the Official and the Alternate Archives; Pallavi Chakravarty (Assistant Professor, Ambedkar University Delhi)
  • Chapter 6: Narrating Trauma, Constructing Binaries, Affirming Agency: Partition in Muslim Women’s Autobiographical Writing; Siobhan Lambert-Hurley (University of Sheffield, Reader in International History)
  • Chapter 7: Relocating the Memory of the Partition in Bapsi Sidhwa’s Defend Yourself Against Me; Daniela Vitolo (University "L'Orientale" – Naples, PhD Candidate)
  • Chapter 8: Poetics of Pain: Writing Women’s Memory of Partition; Anne Castaing (CNRS, Paris, Research Fellow)
  • Section 3: Specters of Partition within the Lived Present
  • Chapter 9: The Gulbarg Memorial and the Problem of Memory; Heba Ahmed (Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, PhD Candidate)
  • Chapter 10: The Shahbag protest and imagining an “ideal” Bangladesh; Sanchari De (Jadavpur University, Kolkata/ Lund University, Sweden PhD Candidate/EMINTE Scholar)
  • Chapter 11: Remembering a lost presence: The specter of Partition in the stories of Lahore-based Punjabi-language author Zubair Ahmed; Anne Murphy (University of British Columbia, Canada, Associate Professor)
  • Chapter 12: Memory in Ruins: ‘Past Presents’ in the Aam Khas Bagh; Churnjeet Mahn (University of Strathclyde, Senior Lecturer).

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