Partitions and Their Afterlives by Radhika Mohanram

Partitions and Their Afterlives by Radhika Mohanram

Partitions and their Afterlives engages with political partitions and how their aftermath affects the contemporary life of nations and their citizens.

This book could not be more timely, given the hysteria with which national borders are being increasingly ‘protected’The essays demonstrate that partitions are not erected to keep violent communities away from each other, nor are they simply historically erected border walls, but are the result of ongoing political processes whose consequences spread wide and deep in contemporary communities. These analyses of partitions are both comprehensive and astute and throw a great deal of light upon the bordering practices operating in the world today. -- Bill Ashcroft, Emeritus Professor, School of English, Media and Performing Arts, University of New South Wales
This ambitious and timely volume is the first to bring together humanities and social science scholars to collectively address the historical, theoretical, cultural and social legacies of partition, from the era of decolonisation to the present. Ranging from policy to popular fiction, and from advertising to the archive, the collection insists on the need for a truly comparative partition studies, undeterred by geographical or disciplinary limits. -- Anna Bernard, Head of Department of Comparative Literature, King’s College London
By inducting numerous parallel case studies of partition in the last century, this volume goes beyond the causation, processes and consequences of decolonisation and border demarcations—often done hastily and self-righteously with complete irreverence for people at large. Areas like gender, selective usage by nationalist narratives and commercial concerns, and an ongoing evolution of sundered and imagined communities feature in this collection offering comparative searchlight on varied examples such as Ireland, Germany, Bosnia, Palestine and certainly the Sub-continent. -- Iftikhar Malik, Professor of History, Bath Spa University

Radhika Mohanram is a Professor at the Centre for Critical and Cultural Theory, Cardiff University, UK.

Anindya Raychaudhuri is a Lecturer in English at the University of St Andrews.

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ISBN 13	9781783488391
ISBN 10	1783488395
Title	Partitions and Their Afterlives
Author	Radhika Mohanram
Series	Critical Perspectives On Theory Culture And Politics
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Year published	2019-06-28
Number of pages	272
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