READING OF VIOLENCE IN PARTITION STORIES FROM BENGAL

This book engages with diverse modes of representations of Partition violence and its consequences in a selection of Partition narratives from Bengal. Violence constitutes one of the most obvious images of this traumatic period in Indian history. Its dynamics of representation--the nature of violence, its impact on society and the individual, the forms of its socio cultural and political implanting--invariably highlight the aesthetic sensibility of its writers. The book questions if it is possible to qualify violence with all its complexities, and examines how these narratives offer a critique.