Learning to Remember Kapila, Shuchi. creator author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut SpringerLink (Online service) text sz 2024 1st ed. 2024. monographic eng

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access XI, 149 p. 2 illus. online resource. “The book presents a rich and multi-layered look at the 1947 partition of India, asking whether, how, and why the disruption and atrocities that partition imparted should be remembered. It is an eloquently written, deeply felt, and nuanced account of partition and its sequalae, not focused primarily on historical facts, but on the meaning of lived experiences at the personal, community, and cultural levels.”– Michelle D. Leichtman, Professor, Department of Psychology, University of New Hampshire, USA This book examines the memories of the Partition of India in 1947 with a focus on the generation of postmemory (those who came after it) and how partition experiences have been shared (or not) and understood. It explores the formal and narrative properties of different memory practices that have been built around the partition, and the methods of oral historians involved in collecting testimonies as part of the 1947 Berkeley partition archive. Shuchi Kapila is Professor in the Department of English at Grinnell College, USA, where she teaches postcolonial literature from Africa, the Caribbean, South Asia. Her book Educating Seeta: The Anglo-Indian Family Romance and the Poetics of Indirect Rule was published in 2010. 1 Learning to Remember.-2.Partition Postmemory.-3.Hospitality and Loss.-4.Nostalgia. -- 5.Collecting Memory -- 6.Preserving Memory -- Conclusion. by Shuchi Kapila. Collective memory Asia History Imperialism Ethnology Memory Studies History of South Asia Imperialism and Colonialism Ethnography D16.9 9783031433979 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-43397-9 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-43397-9 240313 20251030111718.0 978-3-031-43397-9