READING OF VIOLENCE IN PARTITION STORIES FROM BENGAL
Publisher: CAMBRIDGE SCHOLARS PUBLIS
Published: 2020
Place of publication: [S.l.]
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource]
ISBN-13: 9781527557109; 9781527550278
Subjects: Bengali literature; History and criticism; Violence in literature; History; In literature; Literary studies: general; Asian history; Violence in society; Literature
Description: This book engages with diverse modes of representations of Partition violence and its consequences in a selection of Partition narratives from Bengal. Violence constitutes one of the most obvious images of this traumatic period in Indian history. Its dynamics of representation--the nature of violence, its impact on society and the individual, the forms of its socio cultural and political implanting--invariably highlight the aesthetic sensibility of its writers. The book questions if it is possible to qualify violence with all its complexities, and examines how these narratives offer a critique.
Table of contents: title: Intro; title: Contents; title: Preface; title: Acknowledgements; title: Introduction; title: Chapter I; title: Chapter II; title: Chapter III; title: Chapter IV; title: Notes