Memory Studies in India : Texts and Contexts /
This pioneering volume marks a significant contribution to memory studies in India, offering an in-depth exploration of how collective and individual memories shape and reshape identities, narratives, and historical knowledge. By addressing a diverse array of topics-from forgotten events, massacres,...
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| 505 | 0 | |t Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- Avishek Parui and Merin Simi Raj -- PART 1: Memory-Sites, Materiality, and Identities -- 1 Remembering Bhima Koregaon: Contesting Historical Memories around Memorial Buildings -- Aswathy Krishnan -- 2 Memorials and Memory: A Material Turn -- Neha Khetrapal -- 3 Mapping Old Tales and New Trails: A Peripatetic Account of Chandni Chowk -- Mohit Abrol -- 4 Food, Identity and Purity in the Indian Jewish Community before and after Migration: An Analysis based on Jewish Life Narratives -- Shiji Mariam Varghese -- 5 The Eating of the Lotos: Food and Forgetting in the Dangs -- Susan Vivien George -- 6 Revisiting Partition Memories of the Bannu Community: Remembrance Through the Gurudwara Shahidane Gujarat Train -- Prachi Ratra, Anjali Gera Roy, and Seema Singh -- 7 Britain's Anglo-Indian Associations-Help or Hindrance? -- Rochelle Almeida -- 8 Enabling Memory and Renegotiating Identity: a Study of the Goan poskim -- Rochelle Ann Fernandes -- PART 2: Memories, Histories, and Events -- 9 Framing Memories of Colonial Violence: Tracing Shifts in Narratives of the Bengal Famine -- Bhagyashri V. -- 10 Constructing the Ontology of Food Narratives during the Bengal Famine 1943 through Post-Memory Practices -- Rituparna Mukherjee and Juthika Biswakarma -- 11 Peace, Paradise, and Paradox: Analysing the Politics of History and Memory in Kashmir -- Sana Shah -- 12 Memory of a Massacre: Ecological Preservation and the Marichjhapi Debacle -- Pratiti Roy -- 13 Mnemohistorical Reading of the Past: Conceptualizing Memory-Scape and Historical Time -- Sumallya Mukhopadhyay -- PART 3: Narratives, Reconstructions, and Representations -- 14 Stories at a Site of Fratricidal Violence: Cultural Memory and Trauma in Arupa Patangia Kalita's "Bir Daimalur Sadhu" -- Jayashree Borah -- 15 Remembering Partition: Postmemory and Gendered Representation of Bodily Entities in Shauna Singh Baldwin's What the Body Remembers -- Samyukthah A -- 16 Representation of Memory and Trauma in Manto -- Nishat Haider -- 17 Kalki's Ponniyin Selvan : Tamil Modernity, Revivalism and the Popular Historical Novel -- Catherine Shilpa X. -- 18 Marginalized Memories in Hagiographies of Martyrs: Historical Sensibilities in the Vernacular Literatures of the Malabar Muslims -- Muhammad Niyas -- 19 "Displacement as an Escape Mechanism": Traumatic Memory and Identity Formation in Bharati Mukherjee's Jasmine -- Shrimoyee Chattopadhyay -- 20 Remembering the Tebhaga Movement in Mahasweta Devi's Quest Novels Swechasainik and Bandobasti -- Somrwita Ghosh -- 21 Detecting Memory, Creating Pasts: Historical Memory in Crime Fiction -- Vaibhav Iype Parel -- Index. | |
| 520 | |a This pioneering volume marks a significant contribution to memory studies in India, offering an in-depth exploration of how collective and individual memories shape and reshape identities, narratives, and historical knowledge. By addressing a diverse array of topics-from forgotten events, massacres, and monuments to public spaces and food rituals-across various epochs, the essays in this collection bring new insights into India's complex cultural history. With contributions from scholars across different stages of their academic careers, this volume not only enriches the field of memory studies but also paves the way for future research in India and beyond. | ||
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| 700 | 1 | |a Raj, Merin Simi, |e editor. | |
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