Feminist Reconstruction of Memory in Aftermath
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This research explores the feminist reconstruction of memory in the
Meenakshie Verma'sAftermath,an oral history of violence. In 1947 British India was
divided into India and Pakistan. Millions of people were killed and displaced in
partition. Many women got physical and psychological torture in the partition
violence but the national history of post-partition neglected these facts. The historians
did not include the memories of the partition victims. This research claims that
Aftermath tries to question the mainstream representation of the partition violence. It
reconstructs the memories from the feminist point of view to write about the real
trauma of women and war victims and to rewrite the partition history as more
inclusive and whole.