Overview for Reading Partition/Living Partition
Partition has left deep scars on the national psyche. This one distortion of history, with its disjunction between the minds of men and the course of events, has impacted relationships, the homeland and nation, erased languages and cultures and given rise to a whole set of questions about self and identity. This volume, consisting of an interleavi9ng of fiction, memories, historical and political analysis, moves into philosophical and psychological discussion and thus subjects partition to fresh reflection as debates about remembering and forgetting, forgiving or persisting with hostilities are carried on. Individual viewpoints of three generation across a cross-section of society in terms of religions, geographical; locations and national borders as they move from migrations and uprooting, violence and loss to reflect upon the human being in a larger existential framework. Essentially interdisciplinary in nature, reading Partition/Living Partition beings to the reader the work of distinguished writers and scholars of the subcontinent compelling the reader to probe her/his own conscience afresh.
Jasbir Jain (Editor)
Jasbir Jain, writer and critic, Emeritus Fellow, university of Rajasthan, has worked extensively on the Indian novel. Amongst her recent publications are Women in Patriarchy and gendered realities, Human Spaces: The present work is third in a series of writings on the Indian novel and covers the post-independence period. Currently, she is working on the indigenous roots of feminism.
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