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Published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA, 2013
ISBN 10: 1608199568ISBN 13: 9781608199563
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Published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom, London, 2013
ISBN 10: 1408838214ISBN 13: 9781408838211
Seller: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. On 1 November 1984, a day after Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's assassination, a nineteen-year-old student, Raj, travels back from a class trip with his mentor, Professor Singh. As the group disembark at Delhi station a mob surrounds the professor, throws a tyre over him, douses him in petrol and sets him alight. Years later, after moving to the United States, Raj finds himself compelled to return to India to find his professor's widow, the beautiful and enigmatic Nelly. As the two walk through the misty mountains of Shimla, painful memories emerge, and Raj realises he must face the truth about his father's role in the genocidal pogrom. But, as they soon discover, the path leads inexorably back to that day at the train station. In this lyrical and haunting exploration of one of the most shocking moments in the history of the Indian nation, Jaspreet Singh has crafted an affecting and important story of memory, collective silences and personal trauma. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
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Published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2014
ISBN 10: 1408833875ISBN 13: 9781408833872
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Published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom, London, 2013
ISBN 10: 1408829169ISBN 13: 9781408829165
Seller: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. On 1 November 1984, a day after Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's assassination, a nineteen-year-old student, Raj, travels back from a class trip with his mentor, Professor Singh. As the group disembark at Delhi station a mob surrounds the professor, throws a tyre over him, douses him in petrol and sets him alight. Years later, after moving to the United States, Raj finds himself compelled to return to India to find his professor's widow, the beautiful and enigmatic Nelly. As the two walk through the misty mountains of Shimla, painful memories emerge, and Raj realises he must face the truth about his father's role in the genocidal pogrom. But, as they soon discover, the path leads inexorably back to that day at the train station. In this lyrical and haunting exploration of one of the most shocking moments in the history of the Indian nation, Jaspreet Singh has crafted an affecting and important story of memory, collective silences and personal trauma. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
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Published by Bloomsbury 2013, 2013
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
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Published by Bloomsbury, London, 2013
Seller: Bookcase, Carlisle, United Kingdom
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Published by Bloomsbury, London, 2013
ISBN 10: 1408829169ISBN 13: 9781408829165
Seller: Richard Booth's Bookshop, Hereford, United Kingdom
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Published by WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier Aug 2022, 2022
ISBN 10: 3868219528ISBN 13: 9783868219524
Seller: Rheinberg-Buch Andreas Meier eK, Bergisch Gladbach, Germany
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Lisa Freigang 'There Was No Looking Away' Representations of Post-Partition Communal Violence in Indian English Literature ISBN 978-3-86821-952-4 The partition of the Indian subcontinent into the states of India and Pakistan and the violence that occurred in its wake have been depicted in many works of fiction and received considerable attention from literary critics. Outbreaks of violence between members of different religious communities in India since then, however, have only more recently occupied the cultural and critical imagination. This study explores ten Indian novels in English published between 2001 and 2013 that address outbreaks of post-partition communal violence of the '80s, '90s, and '00s as their main subjects. Focusing on the historical and political contexts of the novels, the first part of the literary analysis examines how the texts negotiate the discourse on communal violence and question widespread narratives explaining its causes and triggers. The second part concentrates on the challenges that emerge when representing violence in general and trauma in particular. It explores the aesthetic strategies used in the novels to represent 'the unspeakable' - such as magical realism, ekphrastic strategies, or the use of photographs as a means of 'picturing violence' - and reveals them to be a response to the societal amnesia surrounding communal violence and its aftermath. The study thus brings to light distinct themes and recurrent narrative strategies related to the representation of communal violence within the diverse body of fiction considered, which includes works by Shashi Tharoor, Githa Hariharan, Sujit Saraf, Raj Kamal Jha, Jaspreet Singh, and Chetan Bhagat. TABLE OF CONTENTS 1.Introduction: Narrating Communal Violence in Contemporary Indian English Fiction11.1Representations of Communal Violence in Indian English Novels: Subject Matter and Objectives31.2State of Research61.3Corpus, Approach and Structure9 2. Communalism and Communal Violence in Post-Partition India122.1'When a Big Tree Falls, the Earth Trembles': The Anti-Sikh Violence of 1984212.2Hindu Nationalist Mobilisation and the Ayodhya Dispute in the Late 1980s and Early 1990s252.3'We Have No Orders to Save You': The 2002 Anti-Muslim Violence in Gujarat33 3. Literary Representations of Communal Violence in Indian English Novels39 4. Settings, Triggers, Catalysts: Depicting the Contexts of Communal Violence514.1'Wielding History Like a Battle Axe': The Role of the Past and History Writing in the Production of Communal Sentiments524.1.1 Writing Nonsectarian Histories of Sectarian Strife in Shashi Tharoor's 'Riot'534.1.2 'A Live, Fiery Thing, as Capable of Explosion as a Time Bomb' - History in Githa Hariharan's 'In Times of Siege'614.2Motives and Explanations for Communal Violence674.2.1 'How Long Can He Live Off the Riots of '84 ' - Politics and Pragmatic Interests in Sujit Saraf's 'The Peacock Throne'674.2.2 'Never Big on Religion or Politics' - Chetan Bhagat's 'The 3 Mistakes of My Life' and the (Im)possibility of Neutrality734.3'When a Combination of Things Happens at Once': Concluding Thoughts on Proximate and Indirect Causes of Communal Violence79 5. Narrating the Moment of Violence855.1'Don't Listen to the Dead' - Unreliable Narration and Magical Realism in Raj Kamal Jha's 'Fireproof'865.2Picturing the Moment of Violence995.2.1 'You Had to See the Horror to Believe the Horror' - Photographs in Jaspreet Singh's 'Helium'1005.2.2 Ekphrastic Strategies in Githa Hariharan's 'Fugitive Histories'1065.3Concluding Thoughts: Modes of Narrating Moments of Violence116 6. The Aftermath of Communal Violence1216.1'Prisoners in Our 200 pp. Englisch.
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ISBN 10: 9382951725ISBN 13: 9789382951728
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