Sonntag, 20.04.2008
Stewart: Crossing Over
Stewart, Frank [u.a.] (Hrsg.):
Crossing over : partition literature from India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh / Frank Stewart, editor ; Sukrita Paul Kumar, guest editor. - Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, 2007. - xix, 219 S. : Ill. - (Mānoa : New Writing from America, the Pacific, and Asia ; 19:1)
Notiz: Sondernummer der Zeitschrift Manoa. ISSN 1045-7909. Muse.
ISBN 978-0-8248-3227-8
US$ 16,00
Beschreibung
For nearly a century, Britain ruled the South Asian subcontinent from the Arabian Sea to the Bay of Bengal. After World War II, however, the vast Indian colony became ungovernable from London and the British hastily departed, leaving behind conditions that led to communal rioting and unfathomable violence. In the midnight hours of August 14, 1947, as hastily drawn borders carved the region into the independent nations of Pakistan and India, more than a million people fled across the lines of Partition in both directions. In 1971, when civil war transformed East Pakistan into the independent nation of Bangladesh, communal violence erupted again. The horrors of Partition did not end with the migrations and resettlements of 1947 and 1971, however. On several occasions, open warfare has broken out between Pakistan and India. Kashmir’s borders remain in dispute, and across the region, rioting continues to erupt.
The stories in Crossing Over depict the responses and emotions of ordinary people caught in the tragedy of Partition, when tolerance, respect, and compassion broke down. Written by some of the region’s finest authors—in Hindi, Urdu, Bengali, and English—these works make us aware of the possible responses to ethnic, religious, and national divisiveness. Reading the literature of Partition is bound to arouse comparisons with situations in other parts of the world, where sectarian violence seems unstoppable and solutions intractable. Where will we find the wisdom to create a new future? Crossing Over suggests some answers—and the consequences if we fail.
Authors include Abul Bashar, Samaresh Basu, Rajinder Singh Bedi, Urvashi Butalia, Gulzar, Rashid Haider, Intizar Husain, Kamleshwar, Saadat Hasan Manto, Khadija Mastur, Joginder Paul, Mohan Rakesh, Prafulla Roy, and Bhisham Sahni. Period photographs from a Karachi family album illustrate the effects of Partition on a Goan Catholic community.
Inhalt
Essays
- From The other side of silence / Urvashi Butalia
- On writing sleepwalkers / Joginder Paul
Fiction
- The train has reached Amritsar / Bhisham Sahni ; translation from Hindi by Alok Bhalla
- Toba Tek Singh / Saadat Hasan Manto ; translation from Urdu by Tahira Naqvi
- Lajwanti / Rajinder Singh Bedi ; translation from Urdu by Alok Bhalla
- Incognita / Rashid Haider ; translation from Bengali by Radha Chakravarty
- Pali / Bhisham Sahni ; translation from Hindi by the author
- The claim / Mohan Rakesh ; translation from Hindi by Richard Williams
- The dog of tetwal / Saadat Hasan Manto ; translation from Urdu by Ravikant and Tarun K. Saint
- Whose story? / Gulzar ; translated from the Hindi by Alok Bhalla
- The owner of rubble / Mohan Rakesh ; translation from Hindi by Alok Bhalla
- Father / Prafulla Roy ; translation from Bengali by John W. Hood
- Mozel / Saadat Hasan Manto ; translation from Urdu by Tahira Naqvi
- Farewell / Samaresh Basu ; translation from Bengali by Krishna Dutta and Andrew Robinson
- From Sleepwalkers / Joginder Paul ; translation from Urdu by Sunil Trivedi and Sukrita Paul Kumar
- Where there is no frontier / Prafulla Roy ; translation from Bengali by John W. Hood
- From Basti / Intizar Husain translation from Urdu by Frances W. Pritchett
- Rebirth / Abul Bashar ; translation from Bengali by Krishna Dutta and Andrew Robinson
- How many Pakistans? / Kamleshwar ; translation from Hindi by Vishwamitter Adil and Alok Bhalla
- Cool, sweet water / Khadija Mastur ; translation from Urdu by Tahira Naqvi.
Herausgeber
FRANK STEWART is Mânoa’s general editor and has published numerous books on Asia and the Pacific. Professor at the Department of English, University of Hawai'i at Manoa. Faculty profile.
SUKRITA PAUL KUMAR teaches literature at Delhi University. She is a former fellow of the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla. Her critical books include Conversations on Modernism and Narrating Partition.
Quellen: University of Hawai'i Press; Manoa - Weblog; Amazon.
Schlagwörter: Literaturwissenschaft; Indien; Teilung; Literatur
Crossing over : partition literature from India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh / Frank Stewart, editor ; Sukrita Paul Kumar, guest editor. - Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, 2007. - xix, 219 S. : Ill. - (Mānoa : New Writing from America, the Pacific, and Asia ; 19:1)
Notiz: Sondernummer der Zeitschrift Manoa. ISSN 1045-7909. Muse.
ISBN 978-0-8248-3227-8
US$ 16,00
Beschreibung
For nearly a century, Britain ruled the South Asian subcontinent from the Arabian Sea to the Bay of Bengal. After World War II, however, the vast Indian colony became ungovernable from London and the British hastily departed, leaving behind conditions that led to communal rioting and unfathomable violence. In the midnight hours of August 14, 1947, as hastily drawn borders carved the region into the independent nations of Pakistan and India, more than a million people fled across the lines of Partition in both directions. In 1971, when civil war transformed East Pakistan into the independent nation of Bangladesh, communal violence erupted again. The horrors of Partition did not end with the migrations and resettlements of 1947 and 1971, however. On several occasions, open warfare has broken out between Pakistan and India. Kashmir’s borders remain in dispute, and across the region, rioting continues to erupt.
The stories in Crossing Over depict the responses and emotions of ordinary people caught in the tragedy of Partition, when tolerance, respect, and compassion broke down. Written by some of the region’s finest authors—in Hindi, Urdu, Bengali, and English—these works make us aware of the possible responses to ethnic, religious, and national divisiveness. Reading the literature of Partition is bound to arouse comparisons with situations in other parts of the world, where sectarian violence seems unstoppable and solutions intractable. Where will we find the wisdom to create a new future? Crossing Over suggests some answers—and the consequences if we fail.
Authors include Abul Bashar, Samaresh Basu, Rajinder Singh Bedi, Urvashi Butalia, Gulzar, Rashid Haider, Intizar Husain, Kamleshwar, Saadat Hasan Manto, Khadija Mastur, Joginder Paul, Mohan Rakesh, Prafulla Roy, and Bhisham Sahni. Period photographs from a Karachi family album illustrate the effects of Partition on a Goan Catholic community.
Inhalt
Essays
- From The other side of silence / Urvashi Butalia
- On writing sleepwalkers / Joginder Paul
Fiction
- The train has reached Amritsar / Bhisham Sahni ; translation from Hindi by Alok Bhalla
- Toba Tek Singh / Saadat Hasan Manto ; translation from Urdu by Tahira Naqvi
- Lajwanti / Rajinder Singh Bedi ; translation from Urdu by Alok Bhalla
- Incognita / Rashid Haider ; translation from Bengali by Radha Chakravarty
- Pali / Bhisham Sahni ; translation from Hindi by the author
- The claim / Mohan Rakesh ; translation from Hindi by Richard Williams
- The dog of tetwal / Saadat Hasan Manto ; translation from Urdu by Ravikant and Tarun K. Saint
- Whose story? / Gulzar ; translated from the Hindi by Alok Bhalla
- The owner of rubble / Mohan Rakesh ; translation from Hindi by Alok Bhalla
- Father / Prafulla Roy ; translation from Bengali by John W. Hood
- Mozel / Saadat Hasan Manto ; translation from Urdu by Tahira Naqvi
- Farewell / Samaresh Basu ; translation from Bengali by Krishna Dutta and Andrew Robinson
- From Sleepwalkers / Joginder Paul ; translation from Urdu by Sunil Trivedi and Sukrita Paul Kumar
- Where there is no frontier / Prafulla Roy ; translation from Bengali by John W. Hood
- From Basti / Intizar Husain translation from Urdu by Frances W. Pritchett
- Rebirth / Abul Bashar ; translation from Bengali by Krishna Dutta and Andrew Robinson
- How many Pakistans? / Kamleshwar ; translation from Hindi by Vishwamitter Adil and Alok Bhalla
- Cool, sweet water / Khadija Mastur ; translation from Urdu by Tahira Naqvi.
Herausgeber
FRANK STEWART is Mânoa’s general editor and has published numerous books on Asia and the Pacific. Professor at the Department of English, University of Hawai'i at Manoa. Faculty profile.
SUKRITA PAUL KUMAR teaches literature at Delhi University. She is a former fellow of the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla. Her critical books include Conversations on Modernism and Narrating Partition.
Quellen: University of Hawai'i Press; Manoa - Weblog; Amazon.
Schlagwörter: Literaturwissenschaft; Indien; Teilung
