A divided legacy : the partition in selected novels of India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh / Niaz Zaman
Imprint
Oxford : Oxford university Press, 2000
Descript
vi, 350 p. ; 22 cm
CONTENT
Perspectives on peartition -- Massacres and madness -- Fiery plain: the partition in selected Urdu novels -- Divided hearts -- Public politics and private lives -- New dawn: voices from East Pakistan -- Struggle continues: Bangali novels of class consciousness -- Hindus and/against Muslims -- Fires of partition in sharf MUkaddam and Anita Desai -- Caliban's children: Salman Rushdie and Shashi Tharoor -- Beginning: again: Bapsi Sidhwa and Mahmud Sipra -- Betrayal in Bengal: the partition Sunil Gangopadhyay, Amitav Ghosh, and Taslima Nasreen
SUBJECT
Partition
Territorial in literature
Urdu fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
Bengali fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
Indic fiction (English) -- 20th century -- History and criticism