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'Friends from an earlier life' : radical possibilities of nostalgic melancholy in poems of the 1947 Indian Partition
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dc.contributor.author | Raychaudhuri, Anindya | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-08-09T09:30:05Z | |
dc.date.available | 2018-08-09T09:30:05Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2018-05-15 | |
dc.identifier | 255208531 | |
dc.identifier | 8320d089-d4f9-4e82-a035-fb9771cff830 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Raychaudhuri , 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.2018.76.009 | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 0211-5913 | |
dc.identifier.other | ORCID: /0000-0001-5174-4382/work/61622238 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10023/15786 | |
dc.description.abstract | This 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. | |
dc.format.extent | 16 | |
dc.format.extent | 147857 | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.relation.ispartof | Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses | en |
dc.subject | A. Ali | en |
dc.subject | J. Das | en |
dc.subject | F. A. Faiz | en |
dc.subject | Melancholy | en |
dc.subject | Partition | en |
dc.subject | Poetry | en |
dc.subject | A. Sengupta | en |
dc.subject | P Language and Literature | en |
dc.subject | T-NDAS | en |
dc.subject | SDG 16 - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions | en |
dc.subject.lcc | P | en |
dc.title | 'Friends from an earlier life' : radical possibilities of nostalgic melancholy in poems of the 1947 Indian Partition | en |
dc.type | Journal article | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. School of English | en |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.25145/j.recaesin.2018.76.009 | |
dc.description.status | Peer reviewed | en |
dc.identifier.url | https://riull.ull.es/xmlui/handle/915/7561 | en |
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