Responsibility to the Traumatised Other in Manto’s Partition Stories

dc.contributor.authorRai, Purnima
dc.date.accessioned2021-04-02T07:36:06Z
dc.date.accessioned2021-07-23T04:25:42Z
dc.date.available2021-04-02T07:36:06Z
dc.date.available2021-07-23T04:25:42Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.description.abstractThis dissertation concentrates on or analyses Sa’adat Hassan Manto’s partition stories that reflects or presents his humanism through the emphasis on responsibility to the Other, in this case, towards the traumatised partition victims. Furthermore, his partition stories present the realism of partition violence starkly but humanistically-morally rather than culturally-ethically. Drawing upon the theory of responsibility to the Other, this dissertation assumes that to be considered a good, true and authentic representation of communal violence, literature should be purged of all sentimentality of the writer and s/he should take the moral responsibility for all crimes and evils committed by giving agency to the traumatised victims, and Manto’s partition stories have these mentioned qualities. This dissertation draws upon Hannah Arendt and Emmanuel Levinas’s theory of responsibility to the Other, Jacques Derrida’s concepts such as “democracy to come,” “cosmopolitanism,” and “forgiveness;” and Giorgio Agamben’s concepts such as “Muselmann,” bare life, and agency. By drawing upon the mentioned theorists, this dissertation argues that Manto’s partition stories are true and authentic representation of macabre violence which invests the victims with the agency of their trauma; and projects him as a responsible writer and a true humanists, a champion of the human rights.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14540/3077
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherCentral Department of Englishen_US
dc.subjectResponsibilityen_US
dc.subjectPhilosophyen_US
dc.subjectStoryen_US
dc.subjectEnglish Literatureen_US
dc.titleResponsibility to the Traumatised Other in Manto’s Partition Storiesen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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