Sengupta, Debjani.

The partition of Bengal : fragile borders and new identities / Debjani Sengupta. - xii, 274 p. : 24 cm

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"--

9781107061705 (hardback)

2015011586


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


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

DS485.B49 / S4673 2015

954.14035 / SEP 2016