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PARTITION'S
POST-AMNESIAS: 1947, 1971 AND MODERN SOUTH ASIA
Ananya Jahanara Kabir
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The book focuses on the long-term consequences of the Partition
of India that are to be sought in deep-seated psychological traces
that the event has left on populations across the territory of former
British India: the nations of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh.
Going beyond a literalist or even historicist reading of cause and
effect, it examines a wide range of cultural productions from these
three nations to produce a symptomatic reading of the impact of Partition
on South Asian subjectivities. The book comprises three sections.
Maps-Scripts that examine the interpellation of the South Asian subject
through a typically post-Partition bureaucratic apparatus,
Graves–Homes that explore inner spaces of the post-Partition
subject, and Water-Song that focus on tropes and practices of
cross-South Asian reconciliation efforts. It concludes with
the importance of textile traditions in community histories that
connect modern and pre-modern, and point to ways forward for a
post-Partition South Asian existence.
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ANANYA
JAHANARA KABIR
is Senior Lecturer, School
of English, University of Leeds, UK.
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