Kapila Postmemory and the Partition of India

Learning to Remember
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-3-031-43397-9
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 149 Seiten, eBook

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.

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kapila, Shuchi

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.