Overview
- Approaches Partition from a memory studies perspective, offering a much-needed update to existing scholarship
- Brings together an international range of scholars from a number of disciplinary backgrounds: memory studies, history, cultural studies, South Asian studies and literature
- Published to coincide with the 70th anniversary of Partition, this book invites readers to consider Partition not as past but as a continually unfolding present
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Commemoration in the Everyday
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The Archive and the Literary
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Specters of Partition within the Lived Present
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About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Churnjeet Mahn is a Chancellor’s Fellow and Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Strathclyde, UK. She is the author of British Women’s Travel to Greece, 1840-1914 (2012) She has edited special journal editions, serves on editorial boards, and has published in journals including Victorian Studies and Annals of Tourism Research.
Anne Murphy is Associate Professor in the Department of Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia, Canada. She is author of The Materiality of the Past: History and Representation in Sikh Tradition (2012) and edited Time, History and the Religious Imaginary in South Asia (2011). She has published articles in History and Theory, Studies in Canadian Literature, South Asian History and Culture, the Journal of the American Academy of Religion, and other journals.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Partition and the Practice of Memory
Editors: Churnjeet Mahn, Anne Murphy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64516-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-64515-5Published: 20 December 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-87808-9Published: 24 May 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-64516-2Published: 05 December 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 280
Number of Illustrations: 12 illustrations in colour
Topics: History of South Asia, Memory Studies, Cultural History, Social History