Search results for unsettling partition literaturegendermemory unsettling partition. Her current sshrc funded research, greening narrative. Jill didur the partition of india in 1947 marked the birth of two modernnation states and the end of british colonialism in south asia. Buy unsettling partition by jill didur from waterstones today. Counter to the move for recovery that informs some historical research on testimony and fictional representations of womens partition experiences, jill didur argues for an attentiveness to the literary qualities of womens narratives that interrogate and unsettle monolithic accounts of the period. Didur unsettles this direct reading of fiction and testimony as fact. Literature, gender and memory, jill didur english turns her attention to the silence around those events and recent efforts to fill in its gaps through the study of literature and testimony reflecting on the upheaval that took place. Global ecologies and the environmental humanities is a mustread for anyone interested in the roots of todays environmental crisis and possible solutions to it. Bureaucratic violence and agency in partition cinema. The parsis are concentrated in maharashtra and gujarat states. Unsettling partition literature, gender, memory9780802079978.
And either as a form of repressing that pain or translating. Literature, gender, memory 2006, examines how the literariness of language mediates the readers perception of history, memory and fictional representation connected to partition. Attia hosain 191998 was a britishindian novelist, author, writer, broadcaster, journalist and actor. Pdf a critical analysis of bapsi sidhwa s major works. The cambridge companion to postcolonial travel writing. Read unsettling partition literature, gender, memory by jill didur available from rakuten kobo. Jill didur, concordia university canada, english literature department, faculty member. The move towards the two nation solution was accompanied by an unprecedented mass migration over twelve million people to and from areas that would become india and pakistan. As its title implies, didur in her book attempts to unsettle questions regarding gender, partition, and nationalist politics. Ji is genderneutral and can be used for as a term of respect for person, relationships or inanimate objects as well. Sexual economies and the state in colonial india, in feminist theory and the body. Unsettling partitions reinterprets the silences found in women.
This book examines current trends in scholarly thinking about the new field of the environmental humanities, focusing in particular on how the history of globalization and imperialism represents a special challenge to the representation of environmental. The partition affected many but in most majority women. The partition of india in 1947 marked the birth of two modern nationstates and the end of british colonialism in south asia. She interprets the silences found in womens accounts of. Parsees article about parsees by the free dictionary. Unsettling partition examines short stories, novels, testimonies, and historiography. This page is meant as an educational resource and guide to works on the topic of the indian partition, communalism, and modern south asian history and literature.
Global ecologies and the environmental humanities jill. This book brings an important international perspective to the emerging field of the environmental humanities and reenergizes familiar concepts such as the anthropocene, resilience. Jill didur is an associate professor in english at concordia university, montreal. Unsettling partition 11, or expose hasan 39 the new national narratives formed in the aftermath of partition.
Jill didur is a graduate program director and professor in the department of english at concordia. The partition of india in 1947 marked the birth of two modern. For decades, the product was instantly recognized by its iconic white and yellow wax paper wrapper. Unsettling partitions reinterprets the silences found in womens accounts of sectarian violence that accompanied partition sexual assault, abduction, displacement. Literature, gender, memory jill didur 200709 gender identity in literature. This is a different claim from the commonplace assertion that fictional accounts of partition interrupt pandey, routine violence 15, destabilize didur. This traumatic experience left marks on all spheres of life, including culture as expressed in creative efforts in the fields of literature, music, cinema, drama and painting. Unsettling partitions reinterprets the silences found in womens accounts of sectarian violence that accompanied partition sexual assault, abduction, displacement from their families as a sign of their inability to find a language to articulate their experience without invoking metaphors of purity and pollution. Counter to the move for recovery that informs some historical research on testimony and fictional representations of womens partition experiences, jill didur argues for an attentiveness to the literary. The list of books and films compiled below constitutes a selective guide to some important works in literature, film, history, and anthropology for the cultural and historical. Literature, gender, memory, author jill didur wrote the following.
Literature, gender, memory, and coeditor of global ecologies and the environmental humanities. Unsettling partitionexamines short stories, novels, testimonies, and historiography that represent womens experiences of the partition. Books related to partition and the practice of memory. Home, uprooted ebook by devika chawla rakuten kobo. She wrote in english although her mother tongue was urdu. The partition of india in 1947 marked the birth of two modern nationstates and the end of british. Read home, uprooted oral histories of indias partition by devika chawla available from rakuten kobo. Locative media, transitive reading, and environmental storytelling. Counter to the move for recovery that informs some historical research on testimony and fictional representations of womens partition experiences, jill. She wrote the semiautobiographical sunlight on a broken column and a collection of short stories named phoenix fled. Gender, minorities, and agency in bapsi sidhwas cracking india. Jill didur s unsettling partition is a welcome addition to the growing corpus of academic work on the 1947 partition of india that critically reflects on the relevance of literary texts for understanding the complexities of partition. The 1947 partition of india resulted in a huge human exodus in search of security and was accompanied by mass massacres.
India and the partition responding to disaster medium. The wrapper features a young girl an illustration by everest creative maganlal daiya back in the 1960s. Jill didur s unsettling partition is a necessary and astute scholarly intervention that seeks to use literature as a way of addressing issues of memory and gender that have a direct bearing on how the partition unfolded. The partition of india in 1947 marked the birth of two. The move towards the two nation solution was accompanied by an. Partition and the practice of memory ebook by rakuten kobo. Literature, gender, memory 2006, coeditor of special issues of cultural critique on critical posthumanism 2003 and cultural studies on revisiting the subaltern in the new empire 2003, and completing a book about. It is at the border that we can see how the present is as much constituted by the concentration of new realities that call for shifting frameworks of understanding as it is by past events that continue to haunt memory. Unsettling partition ebook by jill didur 9781442638259 rakuten. Literature, gender, memory u of toronto press, 2006, examines the relationship between south asian partition narratives. The indian independence act of 1947 granted india freedom from british rule, signaling the formal end of the british raj.
This article aims to rethink the trauma of the 1947 partition of british india through the figure of the border. The book acknowledges the importance of looking at all literatures that have appeared on the topic, but focuses specifically. Literature, gender and memory by jill didur by karen herland in concordia journal, november 9, 2006 rehearsing the partition. Jill didur is a professor in the department of english at concordia university, montreal. The partition of india in 1947 marked the birth of two modern nationstates and the end. Unsettling partition examines short stories, novels, testimonies, and historiography that represent womens experiences of the partition. Disasters are breeding grounds for grief, heartache, loss, and physical pain.
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