Women in Partition Literature

Paper Code: 
ENG 144 (a)- Option 1

UNIT I

 

Partition Narratives: Women’s voices and representation (including non-fictional writings)

 

 

UNIT II

 

History and Memory

 

UNTI III

 

Attia Hosain’s Sunlight on a Broken Column  and Phoenix Fled

 

UNTI IV

 

Shauna Singh Baldwin’s Salt and Saffron  and Burnt Shadows

 

UNIT V

 

Kamila Shamsie’s What the Body Remembers  and English Lessons and Other Stories

 

 

Source Books: 

SUGGESTED READINGS:

Violent Belonging: Partition, Gender and National Culture in Post-Colonial India - Kavita Daiya. Temple University Press, (United States),

Border and Boundaries: How Women Experienced the Partition of India - Ritu Menon. Rutgers University Press (United States), (1998)

Women Writers on Partition of Pakistan and India - Ritu Menon. Vanguard Books, (United States), 2006.

The Great Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan - Yasmin Khan. Yale University Press (2008)

The Other Side of Silence: Voices from the Partition of India - Urvashi Butalia. Duke University Press Books (2000)

At the time of Partition - Moniza Alvi. Bloodaxe Books Ltd. (2014)

The Performance of Nationalism: India, Pakistan and the Memory of Partition - Dr Jisha Menon. Cambridge University Press; 1st edition (2013)

Agnew, Vijay. Diaspora, Memory and Identity. Univ of Toronto Press. 2005. Print.

Bhasin, Kamla and Ritu Menon. Women in India’s Partition. Kali for Women. 1998. Print.

Hussein, Aamer and Shama Habibullah. Distant Traveller: New and Selected Fiction. Women Unlimited. Print.

Khan , Yasmin. The Great Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan. Yale U P. 2007. Print.

Seervai, H.M. Partition of India: Legend and Reality. Universal Law Publication. 2012. Print.

Attia Hosain. Jasbir Jain. (ed.) Rawat Publications.

 

Academic Year: 
2017-2018