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100 1 _aRoy, Anjali Gera
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245 1 0 _aMemories and postmemories of the partition of India /
_cAnjali Gera Roy
260 _aLondon :
_bRoutledge,
_c2020
300 _a(248 p.)
520 _a"This book examines the afterlife of Partition as imprinted on the memories and postmemories of survivors and their children to show how they script their life stories to reinscribe tragic tales of violence and abjection into triumphalist sagas of fortitude, resilience, industry, enterprise and survival. By drawing upon current research in history, memory, narrative, violence, trauma, affect, home, nation, borders, refugees and citizenship, this book analyses the traumatizing effects of the somatic impact of direct violence and the aftermath of the equally traumatic experience of displacement, resettlement and struggle for survival shared by successive generations of survivors...
504 _aBibliogr. p. 209-233
505 0 _aHistory, memory, forgetting -- Intangible violence -- Scripting their own lives -- They stuttered: non-narratives of the unsayable -- Not at home -- Memories of lost homes -- Resettled homes -- Moving on -- Partitioned subjects
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