Rituparna Roy, "South Asian Partition Fiction in English: From Khushwant Singh to Amitav Ghosh"
English | 2011 | pages: 179 | ISBN: 9089642455 | PDF | 1,2 mb
English | 2011 | pages: 179 | ISBN: 9089642455 | PDF | 1,2 mb
In this thoughtful volume Rituparna Roy explores a significant cross-section of fiction about the partition of British India in 1947 on the eve of the Empire€™s dissolution and the subsequent succession of Bangladesh from Pakistan in 1971. The six novels selected for study€”Train to Pakistan, A Bend in the Ganges, Ice-Candy-Man, Clear Light of Day, Midnight€™s Children, and The Shadow Lines€”follow a trajectory from primarily reporting the cataclysmic events to theorizing about them. Drawing from a wealth of historical material, Roy offers a sensitive analysis of these major literary works on the theme of partition.
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