Partition and the Practice of Memory

Partition and the Practice of Memory

by Anne Murphy and Churnjeet Mahn
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 13/11/2017

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This edited collection attends to the locations of memory along and about the Indo-Pakistan and Indo-Bangladesh borders and the complex ways in which such memories are both allowed for and erased in the present. The collection is situated at the intersection of narratives connected to memory and commemoration in order to ask how memories have been formed and perpetuated across the imposition of these borders. It explores how national boundaries both silence memories and can be subverted in important ways, through consideration of physical sites and cultural practices on both sides of the India-Pakistan-Bangladesh borders that gesture towards that which has been lost – that is, the cultural whole that was the cultural regions of Punjab and Bengal before Partition, as well as broader cultural "wholes" across South Asia, across religious and linguistic lines – alongside forces that deny such connections. The chapters address issues of heritage and memory through specific case-studies on present-day memorial, museological and commemoration practices, through which sometimes competing memorial landscapes have been constructed, and show how memories of past traumas and histories become inscribed into diverse forms of cultural heritage (the built landscape, literature, film).

ISBN:
9783319645162
9783319645162
Category:
Asian history
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
13-11-2017
Language:
English
Publisher:
Springer International Publishing

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