Bruschi, Isabella
Partition in fiction: gendered perspectives - New Delhi Atlantic 2010 - 324p.
Why looking into a historical event such as the Partition of India, relying on fiction? It is a fact that novelists, even before historians, have contributed to uncover the human tragedy of 1947 and their stories often have a declared intent to give voice to a horror which seems to elude language. The book Partition in fiction: gendered perspectives reveals how the phenomenon of partition—which meant displacement for millions of people and claimed countless lives—was dealt with in creative works; how novelists, who belonged to different generations and literary tendencies, rendered the material and social, emotional and psychological impact that political decisions had on common menus and women’s lives; and how, as a consequence, the individuals’ and communities’ self-perception was modified. More specifically, the book offers a gender-based reading of Partition fiction. The underlying hypothesis in fact is that an undifferentiated approach to both men and women writers’ novels would not fully account for the respective literary tools employed to give prominence to the human experience of Partition. Thus, the analysis of the former proceeds mainly along common thematic lines, while the latter are dealt with separately, because of the great variety of strategies their authors adopt, strategies that, anyway, equally concur in the understanding of the fundamental role pressed on women as signifiers of boundaries, and consequently, as the battlefield where the integrity of community and country were contended. Women’s writing foregrounds the feminine point of view vis-à-vis an event that shaped the existence of thousands of women. The book will prove useful to the students and teachers of English literature and those doing research on the br>Theme of Partition in literature.
9788126913763
English literature-Fiction
India-independence history-Partition
Novel-Partition of India-women writers-Men writers
India partition-female perspective
Attia Hossain- Sunlight on a broken Column
Anita Desai- Distant echoes of partition
Bapsi Sidhwa-Ice candy man
Shauna Singh Baldwin-What body remembers
Manju Kapur-Difficult daughters
Mumtaz Shah Nawas-Mehr Nigar Masroor
Sophia Mustafa
Anita Kumar
Partition, Territorial, in literature
Women in literature
Indic fiction (English)
823.9109 / BRU/P
Partition in fiction: gendered perspectives - New Delhi Atlantic 2010 - 324p.
Why looking into a historical event such as the Partition of India, relying on fiction? It is a fact that novelists, even before historians, have contributed to uncover the human tragedy of 1947 and their stories often have a declared intent to give voice to a horror which seems to elude language. The book Partition in fiction: gendered perspectives reveals how the phenomenon of partition—which meant displacement for millions of people and claimed countless lives—was dealt with in creative works; how novelists, who belonged to different generations and literary tendencies, rendered the material and social, emotional and psychological impact that political decisions had on common menus and women’s lives; and how, as a consequence, the individuals’ and communities’ self-perception was modified. More specifically, the book offers a gender-based reading of Partition fiction. The underlying hypothesis in fact is that an undifferentiated approach to both men and women writers’ novels would not fully account for the respective literary tools employed to give prominence to the human experience of Partition. Thus, the analysis of the former proceeds mainly along common thematic lines, while the latter are dealt with separately, because of the great variety of strategies their authors adopt, strategies that, anyway, equally concur in the understanding of the fundamental role pressed on women as signifiers of boundaries, and consequently, as the battlefield where the integrity of community and country were contended. Women’s writing foregrounds the feminine point of view vis-à-vis an event that shaped the existence of thousands of women. The book will prove useful to the students and teachers of English literature and those doing research on the br>Theme of Partition in literature.
9788126913763
English literature-Fiction
India-independence history-Partition
Novel-Partition of India-women writers-Men writers
India partition-female perspective
Attia Hossain- Sunlight on a broken Column
Anita Desai- Distant echoes of partition
Bapsi Sidhwa-Ice candy man
Shauna Singh Baldwin-What body remembers
Manju Kapur-Difficult daughters
Mumtaz Shah Nawas-Mehr Nigar Masroor
Sophia Mustafa
Anita Kumar
Partition, Territorial, in literature
Women in literature
Indic fiction (English)
823.9109 / BRU/P