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dc.contributor.authorRaychaudhuri, Anindya
dc.date.accessioned2018-08-09T09:30:05Z
dc.date.available2018-08-09T09:30:05Z
dc.date.issued2018-05-15
dc.identifier255208531
dc.identifier8320d089-d4f9-4e82-a035-fb9771cff830
dc.identifier.citationRaychaudhuri , A 2018 , ' 'Friends from an earlier life' : radical possibilities of nostalgic melancholy in poems of the 1947 Indian Partition ' , Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses , vol. 76 , pp. 121-136 . https://doi.org/10.25145/j.recaesin.2018.76.009en
dc.identifier.issn0211-5913
dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0001-5174-4382/work/61622238
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/15786
dc.description.abstractThis paper will examine poetic responses to the trauma of Partition, and will consider both poetry written at the time and since. I will examine works in Bengali, Urdu and English, by such poets as Agha Shahid Ali, Jibanananda Das, Faiz Ahmed Faiz, and Achintya Kumar Sengupta. I will examine how poets deal with the memory of the violence and the resulting legacy of dislocation and alienation. I will examine the possibilities of poetic melancholy as a tool in order to respond to and negotiate the enforced and violent change in identities that Partition precipitated. In the process, I will make a case for the radical potential of what might be called nostalgic melancholy. I argue that in these cases poetic melancholy can be read as a corrective to the imperialist act of Partition, as well as a gesture which defies the nationalist appropriation of history by the independent, postcolonial states. I will analyse how poets from both countries have tried, through their writing, to question the very legitimacy of the border that divides them.
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dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofRevista Canaria de Estudios Inglesesen
dc.subjectA. Alien
dc.subjectJ. Dasen
dc.subjectF. A. Faizen
dc.subjectMelancholyen
dc.subjectPartitionen
dc.subjectPoetryen
dc.subjectA. Senguptaen
dc.subjectP Language and Literatureen
dc.subjectT-NDASen
dc.subjectSDG 16 - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutionsen
dc.subject.lccPen
dc.title'Friends from an earlier life' : radical possibilities of nostalgic melancholy in poems of the 1947 Indian Partitionen
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. School of Englishen
dc.identifier.doi10.25145/j.recaesin.2018.76.009
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.identifier.urlhttps://riull.ull.es/xmlui/handle/915/7561en


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