Title: READING OF VIOLENCE IN PARTITION STORIES FROM BENGAL
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.
Subjects: Bengali literature, History and criticism, Violence in literature, History, In literature, Literary studies: general, Asian history, Violence in society, Literature
Places: Bengal (India), India, Bengal
Time periods: Partition, 1947