Postmemory and the Partition of India: Learning to Remember (Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies)

Kapila, Shuchi

ISBN 10: 3031433963 / ISBN 13: 9783031433962

Published by Palgrave Macmillan, 2024

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Postmemory and the Partition of India: Learning to Remember (Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies)
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3031433963
• ISBN 13: 9783031433962
• Binding: hardcover
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

This book examines the memories of the Partition of India in 1947 with a focus on the generation of postmemory (those who came after it) and how partition experiences have been shared (or not) and understood. It explores the formal and narrative properties of different memory practices that have been built around the partition, and the methods of oral historians involved in collecting testimonies as part of the 1947 Berkeley partition archive.

About the Author

Shuchi Kapila is Professor in the Department of English at Grinnell College, USA, where she teaches postcolonial literature from Africa, the Caribbean, South Asia. Her book Educating Seeta: The Anglo-Indian Family Romance and the Poetics of Indirect Rule was published in 2010.