Cambridge Scholars Publishing The Partition of India: Beyond Improbable Lines

This volume offers a collection of essays focused upon the representation of one of the most traumatic events in the history of India―the 1947 Partition―in literature and cinematographic adaptations. The focus here is placed on various strategies of representation and different types of memory at work in the process of remembering/re-membering Partition. All these avoid the traditional Hindu vs. Muslim perspective, and analyse other sides of the same story, seen from the perspective of marginal people belonging to other religious minorities, whose stories have generally been ignored and silenced by the official historical discourse. The book also demonstrates that the multiple “truths” engendered by this crucial event in India’s history lie along “improbable lines” randomly generated between history, amnesia and memory, between personal drama and collective trauma, loss and rupture, religion and nationalism, and longing and belonging. About the Author Daniela Rogobete is a Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Craiova, Romania and a translator. She has published a number of studies on Indian English fiction, intertextuality, aesthetics and visual culture. She is the author of When Texts Come into Play–Intertexts and Intertextuality (2003), Metaphor―Between Language and Thought (2008), and Deconstructing Silence―Ambiguity and Censored Metaphors in Salman Rushdie’s Fiction (2010), and co-editor of The Silent Life of Things: Reading and Representing Commodified Objecthood (2015). Elisabetta Marino is an Associate Professor in English Literature at the University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Italy. She is the author of four monographs, including a volume on the figure of Tamerlane in British and American literature (2000), an introduction to British Bangladeshi literature (2005), a study on the relationship between Mary Shelley and Italy (2011), and an analysis of Romantic dramas on mythological subjects (2016). She has also edited and co-edited eight collections of essays and published extensively on travel literature, Asian American and Asian British literature, Italian American literature, and English Romantic writers.