Khushwant Singh’s Train to Pakistan and Margaret Bourke-White’s Partition Photographs

Khushwant Singh’s Train to Pakistan and Margaret Bourke-White’s Partition Photographs: Clash of Narratives or Postmemory Project Memories of the Partition of India have, over the last decades, been constructed through a broad range of media, such as biographical memory, historiography, or litera...

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Autor principal:	Ira Sarma
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Publicado:	Ksiegarnia Akademicka Publishing 2021
Materias:	Partition of India 1947 literature photography narratives Train to Pakistan Indo-Iranian languages and literature PK1-9601 Languages and literature of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania PL1-8844
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:597d455c50d641dbbdea8248313626732021-11-27T12:53:24ZKhushwant Singh’s Train to Pakistan and Margaret Bourke-White’s Partition Photographs 10.12797/CIS.17.2015.17.141732-09172449-8696https://doaj.org/article/597d455c50d641dbbdea8248313626732021-07-01T00:00:00Zhttps://journals.akademicka.pl/cis/article/view/1684https://doaj.org/toc/1732-0917https://doaj.org/toc/2449-8696 Khushwant Singh’s Train to Pakistan and Margaret Bourke-White’s Partition Photographs: Clash of Narratives or Postmemory Project Memories of the Partition of India have, over the last decades, been constructed through a broad range of media, such as biographical memory, historiography, or literature. An interesting more recent example of remembrance is the illustrated golden jubilee edition of Khushwant Singh’s novel Train to Pakistan (2006) which features more than 60 of photographs of the US-American photojournalist Margaret Bourke-White and a wide range of editorial paratexts. An analysis of this new edition will show that the textual and visual narratives thus combined differ widely and do not support each other as the editor Pramod Kapoor claims. However, if we look at the project as a whole we find it to be more than simply an “illustrated version” of the original novel. Rather, it can be seen as what Marianne Hirsch has called a ‘postmemory’ project: Kapoor connects different viewpoints and narratives and thus finds a form of expressing his own view of Partition and the ways the second generation should deal with it. Ira Sarma Ksiegarnia Akademicka PublishingarticlePartition of India1947literaturephotographynarrativesTrain to PakistanIndo-Iranian languages and literaturePK1-9601Languages and literature of Eastern Asia, Africa, OceaniaPL1-8844ENCracow Indological Studies, Vol 17 (2021)
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description	Khushwant Singh’s Train to Pakistan and Margaret Bourke-White’s Partition Photographs: Clash of Narratives or Postmemory Project Memories of the Partition of India have, over the last decades, been constructed through a broad range of media, such as biographical memory, historiography, or literature. An interesting more recent example of remembrance is the illustrated golden jubilee edition of Khushwant Singh’s novel Train to Pakistan (2006) which features more than 60 of photographs of the US-American photojournalist Margaret Bourke-White and a wide range of editorial paratexts. An analysis of this new edition will show that the textual and visual narratives thus combined differ widely and do not support each other as the editor Pramod Kapoor claims. However, if we look at the project as a whole we find it to be more than simply an “illustrated version” of the original novel. Rather, it can be seen as what Marianne Hirsch has called a ‘postmemory’ project: Kapoor connects different viewpoints and narratives and thus finds a form of expressing his own view of Partition and the ways the second generation should deal with it.
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Khushwant Singh’s Train to Pakistan and Margaret Bourke-White’s Partition Photographs

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