Recapturing the Trauma of Partition of India: A Reading of Manto's Short Stories

dc.contributor.authorNeupane, Mohan
dc.date.accessioned2022-09-06T10:07:59Z
dc.date.available2022-09-06T10:07:59Z
dc.date.issued2009
dc.description.abstractThe partition history of India carries the traumatic experience of sectarian violence which even has been the indigenous phenomenon of India. Independence brought with it the trauma of the country's partition which made millions homeless and brought in calculable misery in its wake. As several creative writers who move round on the literary battlefield of partition, Saadat Hasan Manto's stories also deal with psychosis of divisiveness, of dismembering, the rupture with the past and unprecedented violence of absurd dimensions,trauma and even death. Besides depicting the deep pangs of partition, Manto brought to the forefront the lasting unspeakable psychic pain of the sufferers' to the present as 'trauma'.Be they the characters of" She is Alive","A Lump of Cold Flesh","The Last Solute"or "Three and a Half Annas", the life of the sufferers' portrayed by Man to leaves one shocked and scattered. Not even the Indo-Pak conflict on Kashmir escaped the master's attention. "The Last Solute", "Toba Tek Singh", are his tribute to the comradeship between the Indian and Pak armed forces of those days and the long-lasting haunting images of these episodes are the outcome of the psychic trauma.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14540/12842
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherDepartment of Englishen_US
dc.subjectPsychic traumaen_US
dc.subjectPost colonial Indiaen_US
dc.subjectViolence historyen_US
dc.subjectTraumatic experienceen_US
dc.titleRecapturing the Trauma of Partition of India: A Reading of Manto's Short Storiesen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
local.academic.levelMastersen_US
local.institute.titleCentral Department of Englishen_US

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