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The Partition of Bengal: Fragile Borders and New Identities
Debjani Sengupta
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Description for The Partition of Bengal: Fragile Borders and New Identities
hardcover. The book is focused on the impact of Partition on the eastern part of India - West Bengal and Bangladesh. Num Pages: 283 pages. BIC Classification: 2BMB; DSBH5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 540.
This study looks at the rich literature that has been spawned through the historical imagination of Bengali-speaking writers in West Bengal and Bangladesh through issues of homelessness, migration and exile to see how the Partition of Bengal in 1947 has thrown a long shadow over memories and cultural practices. Through a rich trove of literary and other materials, the book lays bare how the Partition has been remembered or how it has been forgotten. For the first time, hitherto untranslated archival materials and texts in Bangla have been put together to assess the impact of 1947 on the cultural memory ... Read more
This study looks at the rich literature that has been spawned through the historical imagination of Bengali-speaking writers in West Bengal and Bangladesh through issues of homelessness, migration and exile to see how the Partition of Bengal in 1947 has thrown a long shadow over memories and cultural practices. Through a rich trove of literary and other materials, the book lays bare how the Partition has been remembered or how it has been forgotten. For the first time, hitherto untranslated archival materials and texts in Bangla have been put together to assess the impact of 1947 on the cultural memory ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
283
Condition
New
Number of Pages
283
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107061705
SKU
V9781107061705
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Ref
99-17
About Debjani Sengupta
Debjani Sengupta teaches in the Department of English at Indraprastha College for Women, University of Delhi. Her publications include an anthology of Partition short fiction titled Mapmaking: Partition Stories from Two Bengals (2003, 2011) that she edited, and articles on Bangla science fiction, Bangla theatre and the Bengal Partition in anthologies and journals. She has contributed translations from Bangla to ... Read more
Reviews for The Partition of Bengal: Fragile Borders and New Identities
'This work is substantive not merely because of the political and literary elements Sengputa brings into her narrative but also because of the focus she places on the roles of such individuals as Ashoka Gupta, Renuka Ray and Renu Chakravartty in promoting communal harmony in Bengal.' Syed Badrul Ashan, Asian Affairs