Bengal Partition Stories: An Unclosed Chapter

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Bashabi Fraser
Anthem Press, 2008 - Fiction - 640 pages

Through oral histories, interviews and fictional retellings, 'Bengal Partition Stories' unearths and articulates the collective memories of a people traumatised by the brutal division of their homeland.

 

Contents

About the Translation
57
The Authors and their stories
89
Insignificance
111
The Saviour
131
The Ledger
145
Infidel
165
Honour
189
Here and There
211
The Story of Sonadas Baul
361
Looking Back
387
The Debt of a Generation
415
If
429
Alams Own House
453
Three Generations
473
The Girl was Innocent
489
Infiltration
517

Hindu
227
The Crossing
247
Alien Land
271
India
289
Home Sweet Home
313
Embrace
339
Deliverance
539
Tagore
567
This Border
593
Glossary
609
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About the author (2008)

Dr Bashabi Fraser is currently a Lecturer in English Literature at Napier University and an Honorary Fellow at Edinburgh University.

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