South Asian Partition Fiction in English From Khushwant Singh to Amitav Ghosh

• Main Author: Rituparna, Roy (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Amsterdam University Press 2010
• Series: IIAS Publications Series
• Subjects: Literature & literary studies; History; literature; geschiedenis; letterkunde; history; geography; and auxiliary disciplines; Hindus; India; Midnight's Children; Muslims; Pakistan; Partition of India; Salman Rushdie
• Online Access: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

South Asian Partition Fiction in English: From Khushwant Singh to Amitav Ghosh explores a significant cross-section of South Asian fiction in English written on the theme of Partition from the mid-1950s to the late 1980s, and shows how the Partition novel in English traverses a very interesting traj...