Dialogue on Partition: Literature Knows No Borders

189 Pages·2021·2.376 MB·English

by  Syrrina Ahsan Ali Haque

Dialogue on Partition

Dialogue on Partition
Literature Knows No Borders
Syrrina Ahsan Ali Haque
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Names: Haque, Syrrina Ahsan Ali, 1971- author.
Title: Dialogue on partition : literature knows no borders / Syrrina Ahsan Ali Haque.
Description: Lanham : Lexington Books, [2021] | Includes bibliographical
references and index. | Summary: “Dialogue on Partition shows how shared
time and space as depicted in partition literature can foster dialogue
despite separation and relocation. By incorporating the multiple and
eclectic perspectives of characters, narrators, writers, and historians,
art and literature can be used as tools of integration between sects,
religions and differences”—Provided by publisher.
Identifiers: LCCN 2020050857 (print) | LCCN 2020050858 (ebook) |
ISBN 9781793636249 (cloth ; alk. paper) | ISBN 9781793636256 (epub)
Subjects: LCSH: Indic fiction (English)—History and criticism. | Pakistani
fiction (English)—History and criticism. | Partition, Territorial, in literature. |
National characteristics, East Indian, in literature. | National characteristics,
Pakistani, in literature. | Collective memory in literature. | Space and time
in literature. | India—History—Partition, 1947—Literature and the partition.
Classification: LCC PR9570.S64 H37 2021 (print) | LCC PR9570.S64 (ebook) |
DDC 820.9/954—dc23
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To the spirit and soul of bygone years,
Molding and melding yonder paths and yonder times
Living The Quest of “Who Am I?”

Contents
List of Acronyms ix
Foreword xi
Acknowledgments xv
Introduction xvii
1 Dialogization of Identities in Bapsi Sidhwa’s Ice-Candy-Man 1
2 The Heteroglot World in Khushwant Singh’s Train to Pakistan 35
3 Chronotopal Movement in Anita Desai’s Clear Light of Day 67
4 The Coexistence of Polyphonic Voices in Mehr Nigar Masroor’s
Shadows of Time 93
5 Creation of Dialogic Paradigms 127
Bibliography 135
Index 141
About the Author 147
vii

List of Acronyms
DI The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays by M. M. Bakhtin
FCS “Forms of Time and Chronotope in the Novel: Notes
Towards Historical Poetics” by M. M. Bakhtin:
PHB Pakistan History Board
TLC Theory of the Literary Chronotope Reflections by Bemong, et al.
SGLE Bakhtin’s Speech Genres and Other Late Essays by M.
M. Bakhtin
I&P India and Pakistan: Continued Conflict or Cooperation?
By Stanley Wolpert
DPH “In Theory Bakhtin: Dialogism, Polyphony and
Heteroglossia” by Andrew Robins
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