Recall and Retell

Literary Registers of Memory, Identity, and Resistance in India

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

Av Elwin Susan John, Amal P Mathews, Amal P. Mathews

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This volume explores the instrumental role played by memory in our daily and collective narratives and the manifold ways in which it can destabilize those prevailing in India. It explores manifestations of memory and postmemory through written narratives, within India’s social, political, and cultural memoryscape. Drawing on archival research, oral history collection, and textual and critical analysis, the book endeavours to reconstruct Indian experiences in all their richness and diversity, while challenging dominant paradigms and expanding the boundaries of collective memory.An important contribution, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of history, memory studies, partition studies, sociology, cultural studies, English literature, decolonization, and South Asian studies.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2025-03-27
Mått156 x 234 x 17 mm
Vikt440 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor142
FörlagTaylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN9781032779218

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Elwin Susan John has been Assistant Professor of English at Sophia College (Autonomous), Mumbai, India since 2015. Her doctoral study was on the sociocultural intersections between skin and diseases by reading literary narratives on colonial South India. She is actively involved in interdisciplinary research ventures along with full-time teaching. She is the co-editor of Media Technology and Cultures of Memory, published in 2024.Amal P Mathews has been Assistant Professor of English at Assumption College (Autonomous), Kerala, India since 2012. Besides being involved in various teaching-learning initiatives at her workspace, she is also interested in exploring new dimensions of literature and translation. She is currently pursuing doctoral research in the interdisciplinary field of children’s human rights in 21st century fiction. She is the co-editor of Media Technology and Cultures of Memory, published in 2024.

List of figures viiList of contributors viiiAcknowledgements xIntroduction: Locating Literary and Cultural Registers of Memory,Identity, and Resistance in India 1AMAL P MATHEWS AND ELWIN SUSAN JOHNPART IRecall: Shadowed and Mapped Memories 191 ‘Cryptopolitics’: Memory, Landscape, Identity 21SAHANA MUKHERJEE2 The Rebels’ Silhouette(s): Reception and Resistance in South Asia 31RHITAMA BASAK3 Of Translocal Memories: Remembering and Forgetting in New Town, West Bengal 44DEBARUN SARKAR4 Paradesi’s Jewish Soul: A Tapestry of Memories Woven in Stone and Spirit 57LAKSHMIPRIYA P SANTHOSHPART IIRetell: Reconfigured and Reclaimed Memories 755 Memory as Praxis: Reconfigurations of the Home in Select Anglophone Texts from Northeast India 77SAMRITA SINHA6 Archives, Indigeneity, and Decolonization in Indian Children’s Picture Books 90SUDEBI GIRI AND BINAY SAWAIYAN7 Bene Appétit: Consuming Food and Remembering Jewish Identity in the Selected Works of Esther David 109ANANDHA LEKSHMI NAIR8 Mythopoeic Menus from the Spice Coast: Food, Memory, and Community in Kerala 124MEENU JOSEIndex 137