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Partition and the Practice of Memory

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Editors:
  1. Churnjeet Mahn

    1. Department of English, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, United Kingdom

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  2. Anne Murphy

    1. Department of Asian Studies, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

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  • 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)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Introduction: Partition and the Practice of Memory

    • Churnjeet Mahn, Anne Murphy
    Pages 1-14

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 275-280
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About this book

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).

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of English, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, United Kingdom

    Churnjeet Mahn

  • Department of Asian Studies, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

    Anne Murphy

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

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