Unsettling Partition
Subtitle: Literature, Gender, Memory
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: February 25, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9780802079978
Subjects: Literary studies: from c 1900 -; Middle Eastern; Indic fiction; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; Middle East; Partition, Territorial, in literature; Literary Criticism & Collections / Middle Eastern; History and criticism; 20th century; Gender identity in literature
First sentence: R.K. Narayan's novel Waiting for the Mahatma tells the story of an aimless young man, Sriram, who struggles to live up to the teachings of Mahatma Gandhi in order to win the love of his faithful disciple, Bharati.
Description: "The Partition of India in 1947 marked the birth of two modern-nation states and the end of British colonialism in South Asia. The move towards the 'two nation solution' was accompanied by an unprecedented mass migration (over twelve million people) to and from areas that would become India and Pakistan." "Diverse representations of the violence that accompanied this migration (including the abduction and sexual assault of over 75,000 women) can be found in fictional, historical, autobiographical, and scholarly works. Unsettling Partition examines short stories, novels, testimonies, and historiography that represent women's experiences of the Partition."--Jacket.