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dc.contributor.advisorNoman, Abu Sayeed Mohammad
dc.contributor.authorFariha, Tasmi
dc.date.accessioned2024-11-27T06:01:59Z
dc.date.available2024-11-27T06:01:59Z
dc.date.copyright2022
dc.date.issued2022-09
dc.identifier.otherID 20163016
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10361/24826
dc.descriptionThis thesis is submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in English, 2022.en_US
dc.descriptionCataloged from PDF version of thesis.
dc.descriptionIncludes bibliographical references (pages 34-35).
dc.description.abstractThis research aims to explore how Partition of India in 1947 and the subsequent sectarianism and forms of fragmentation are represented in selected literary texts. To be more specific, this paper intends to investigate how the division of India on the ground of religion affected the lives of ordinary people in the light of three Partition fictions- “Toba Tek Singh” by Sadat Hasan Manto,” The Shadow Lines by Amitav Ghosh and Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie. The study is not dismissive of the national and historical accounts of Partition and the events that followed this grand political event. However, it argues that focusing only on the facts and information about these political events is not enough to make sense of the trauma that partition and communal violence gave birth to. Taking into account the fact that partition should be understood from multiple perspectives, this paper, with the help of the three aforementioned primary texts, attempts to investigate what Partition and sectarian violence mean to the ordinary people who lived through it and how it profoundly affected their sense of self and belonging.en_US
dc.description.statementofresponsibilityTasmi Fariha
dc.format.extent35 pages
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherBrac Universityen_US
dc.rightsBrac University theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission.
dc.subjectNationalismen_US
dc.subjectPartitionen_US
dc.subjectMultifaceted identitiesen_US
dc.subjectBelongingen_US
dc.subjectSecularismen_US
dc.subjectNew-historicismen_US
dc.titleNationalism, trauma and memory of partition, the issues of identity and belonging in selected partition fictionsen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
dc.contributor.departmentDepartment of English and Humanities, Brac University
dc.description.degreeM.A. in English


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