Narratives of Loss and Longing

Nukhbah Taj Langah is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of English (Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences) University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Roshni Sengupta is an Associate Professor at the School of Liberal Studies, University of Petroleum and Energy Studies (UPES), India.

Introduction Recontextualizing Partition Trauma through Literature 1.Trauma and Identity Crisis in the Partition Fiction by Sa’adat Hassan Manto and Joginder Paul 2. A Powerful Sense of Inhabitance: Lyric, Memory, and Enduring Community in South Asia 3. Being in Partition: Ontology of a Post-Partition Self 4.“The Bridge of Words”: Post-Partition Reflection in Contemporary Urdu Writing from Pakistan Feminist Observations 5. Narrating Rape and Resistance: Tracing the Trajectories of Birangona in Rizia Rahman’s Letters of Blood Minorities and Marginality 6. Dalit Migrant Reminiscences from Bengal 7. The Symbol of Sufi Shrines in Basharat Peer’s Curfewed Nights: One Kashmiri Journalist’s Frontline Account Life, Love and War in his Homeland Vernacular History 8. Tracing the Vernacular Histories of Partition: Reading P. Kesavadev’s Bhranthalayam as a Partition Narrative in Malayalam Bengali Literary Representations 9. Narrating History, Constructing Memories: Mapping the ‘Third Space’ through Cultural Negotiations in Post-Partition Bangladesh10. Re-thinking Cosmopolitanism / Re-reading Tagore 11. Challenging Borders: A Selective Study of Bashabi Fraser’s Poetry Post-Partition Artistic and Literary Representations 12. In hindsight: Pehalwans, Courtesans and the Promise of Democracy in Musharraf Ali Farooqi’s Between Clay and Dust Conclusion