TY - BOOK AU - Kapila,Shuchi ED - SpringerLink (Online service) TI - Postmemory and the Partition of India: Learning to Remember T2 - Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies, SN - 9783031433979 AV - D16.9 PY - 2024/// CY - Cham PB - Springer International Publishing, Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan KW - Collective memory KW - Asia KW - History KW - Imperialism KW - Ethnology KW - Memory Studies KW - History of South Asia KW - Imperialism and Colonialism KW - Ethnography N1 - 1 Learning to Remember.-2.Partition Postmemory.-3.Hospitality and Loss.-4.Nostalgia. -- 5.Collecting Memory -- 6.Preserving Memory -- Conclusion N2 - “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 UR - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-43397-9 ER -