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.
Format: Paperback / softback
CONTRIBUTORS: Shuchi Kapila
EAN: 9783031433993
COUNTRY: Switzerland
PAGES: 149
WEIGHT:
HEIGHT: 210 mm
PUBLISHED BY: Springer International Publishing AG
DATE PUBLISHED: 2025-03-14
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GENRE: HISTORY / General, HISTORY / Historiography, HISTORY / Asia / South / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Imperialism, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General
WIDTH: 148 mm
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Book Themes:
South Asia (Indian sub-continent), Social and cultural anthropology, Historiography, Asian history, Colonialism and imperialism
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.