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Accepted Paper:
Poetics of a lost home: writing the memory of partition
Anne Castaing
(CNRS)
Paper short abstract:
In the light of recent anthologies of short stories and interview collections, this paper aims at questioning memory and subjectivity in the recent narration (whether fictional or historical) of Partition, as an attempt to trace an unwritten social and popular History.
Paper long abstract:
In the light of recent anthologies of short stories (Bhalla 1994, Hasan 1995) and interview collections (Bhalla 2006, Butalia 1998, Talbot 2006), this paper aims at questioning memory and subjectivity in the recent narration (whether fictional or historical) of Partition, as an attempt to trace an unwritten social and popular History.