The partition of Bengal : fragile borders and new identities /

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"Provides insights into current literary and cultural criticisms and focuses on certain influences of specific histories to develop a macro-historical perspective on partition"--

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sengupta, Debjani
Format: Printed Book
Language:English
Published: New Delhi: Cambridge university press, 2016.
Subjects:
Collective memory > India > Bengal.
Collective memory > Bangladesh.
Partition, Territorial > Social aspects > India > Bengal > Historiography.
Partition, Territorial > Social aspects > Bangladesh > Historiography.
Nationalism > India > Bengal > Historiography.
Nationalism > Bangladesh > Historiography.
Partition, Territorial, in literature.
Bengal (India) > History > Partition, 1947 > Historiography.
Bengal (India) > In literature.
Bengali fiction > History and criticism.
Table of Contents:
  • The Calcutta riots in representations and testimonies
  • Noakhali and after : history, memory and representations
  • Colony fiction : displacement and belonging in post-partition Bangla fiction
  • From Dandakaranya to Marichjhapi : refugee rehabilitation in Bangla partition fictions
  • The partition's afterlife : nation and narration from the north east of India and Bangladesh
  • Uncanny landscapes and unstable borders : politics and identity in geo-narratives of the partition (2005-2010).

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