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Debjani Sengupta

PARTITION OF BENGAL : fragile borders and new identities / Debjani Sengupta. - 1 - New Delhi Cambridge University Press 2016/01/01 - 274

Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-266) and index.

The Calcutta riots in representations and testimonies -- Noakhali and after : history, memory and representations -- Colony fiction : displacement and belonging in post-partition Bangla fiction -- From Dandakaranya to Marichjhapi : refugee rehabilitation in Bangla partition fictions -- The partition's afterlife : nation and narration from the north east of India and Bangladesh -- Uncanny landscapes and unstable borders : politics and identity in geo-narratives of the partition (2005-2010).

"Provides insights into current literary and cultural criticisms and focuses on certain influences of specific histories to develop a macro-historical perspective on partition"--

ISBN: 9781107061705 (hardback)

Source: Gifted RRLF

LCCN: 2015011586

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Collective memory
Collective memory
Partition, Territorial
Partition, Territorial
Nationalism
Nationalism
Partition, Territorial, in literature.--India--Bengal.--Bangladesh.--Social aspects--Historiography.--India--Bengal--Social aspects--Historiography.--Bangladesh--Historiography.--India--Bengal--Historiography.--Bangladesh

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Bengal (India)--History--Historiography.--Partition, 1947
Bengal (India)--In literature.
Bengali fiction--History and criticism.

Dewey Class. No.: 954.14035 / DEB/PA