Postmemory and the Partition of India

Learning to Remember
2024
ISBN: 978-3-031-43396-2
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 149 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 333 g

Reihe: Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies

This book examines the memories of the Partition of India in 1947 with a focus on the generation of postmemory (those who came after it) and how partition experiences have been shared (or not) and understood. It explores the formal and narrative properties of different memory practices that have been built around the partition, and the methods of oral historians involved in collecting testimonies as part of the 1947 Berkeley partition archive.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kapila, Shuchi

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Geschichtspolitik, Erinnerungskultur
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Ethnographie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kolonialgeschichte, Geschichte des Imperialismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 Learning to Remember.-2.Partition Postmemory.-3.Hospitality and Loss.-4.Nostalgia..- 5.Collecting Memory.- 6.Preserving Memory.- Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Shuchi Kapila is Professor in the Department of English at Grinnell College, USA, where she teaches postcolonial literature from Africa, the Caribbean, South Asia. Her book Educating Seeta: The Anglo-Indian Family Romance and the Poetics of Indirect Rule was published in 2010.