TY - BOOK AU - Sengupta, Jayita, ed. TI - Barbed wire: borders and partitions in south Asia SN - 0415501504 U1 - 954.14042 PY - 2012/// CY - New Delhi PB - Routledge KW - Partition of Bengal (India : 1947) KW - Literature and history KW - South Asia KW - Social conditions KW - Partition of India (1947) N1 - 1. Uprooted / Achintyo Kumar Sengupta 2.`Hello Khuku!' / Indrani Sen 3. Across Boundaries / Anita Das Tandon 4. The Distance to Lahore / Surjit Sarna 5. Living the Dream: Narrating a Landscape Lost and a Land Left Behind / Ashes Gupta 6. The Ultimate Dislocation: Migrations, Histories and the Human / Jasbir Jain Bruised Nation: Tropes of Violence 7. Partition as Leitmotif in the Stories of Sa'adat Hasan Manto / Sreemati Mukherjee 8. The Emblematic Body: Women and Nationalism in Partition Narratives / Himadri Lahiri 9. Holocausts and Human Hearts: A Study of Rajinder Singh Bedi's `Lajwanti' / Nibir Kumar Ghosh 10. Recalling the `City of the Dreadful Night': Narratives of Partition Salil Choudhury, Manas Ray, Helene Cixous / Tutun Mukherjee Reconstructing Identities: Strategies of Survival. Contents note continued: 11. Dismemberment and/or Reconstitution: Visual Representations of the Partition of Bengal / Somdatta Mandal 12. Chaos, Dislocation and Problem of Identity in Sunil Gangopadhyay's Arjun / Naina Dey pt. Two Of Borders, Barbed Wires and the Unending Trail: Map Makings and Map Makings (The North-East and The East) 13. Of Nation (An Excerpt) / Debashish Tarafdar 14. Thinking and Rethinking Partition in the North-East: Colonial and Post-colonial Assam / Moushumi Dutta Pathak 15. Me and the World of Militants / Indira (Mamoni Raisom) Goswami 16. At the Crossroads: The Representation of Violence in Contemporary Assamese Poetry / Bibhash Choudhury 17. Locatings / Dilipkanti Laskar 18. Bangladesh: Language Movement and Dhirendranath Datta / Kamaluddin Ahmed 19. Of Bangladesh and East India: Fictional Representation of Violence and Migration after 1947 / Jayita Sengupta 20. People in Quest of a River (Excerpts) / Purabi Bormudoi. Contents note continued: 21. Pushback / Meenakshi Sen The Agony of Desire: Kashmir 22.A Brief Overview of the Kashmir Issue / Jayita Sengupta 23. In the Shadow of Militancy: The Diary of an Unknown Kashmiri (Excerpts) / Tej N. Dhar 24. Special Reports from Kashmir / Kavita Suri Partitions: The Undying Angst 25. Partition Ghazal / Keki N. Daruwalla 26. Criminal / Jilani Bano 27. Kamaleshwar's Kitne Pakistan and the Metaphors of Partition / Ameena Kazi Ansar ER -