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

by: Shuchi Kapila (Author)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 14 Mar. 2024

Language: English

Print Length: 160 pages

ISBN-10: 3031433963

ISBN-13: 9783031433962

Book Description

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.