Interrogating the Historical and Fictional Aspects of the Representation of Partition in Novels: A Review of History and Fiction: A Study of Indo-Anglian Partition Novels by Fahmeeda Hilal

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Chhutan Dey

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Partition of the Indian Subcontinent as a historical event has affected the nation in many ways. India still wakes up at midnight to nightmares. The horror, bloodshed, and genocide that came by as unwanted gifts to the people of the subcontinent still drive them to traumatic fits. The severed nations have been struggling through times to come to terms with this psychic trauma. Years have worn out and the misunderstanding between nations still perpetuates. The nations have drifted away in the course of their search for answers to questions which were born the day they thought they were free. Writers have sought to answer some of the questions and perhaps, raised innumerable questions in turn. Partition literature comprises a vast body of works from writers on both sides of the border____ India and Pakistan and even expatriates. Partition scholarship has been a convincing effort at understanding partition literature from myriad perspectives.

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Chhutan Dey. “Interrogating the Historical and Fictional Aspects of the Representation of Partition in Novels: A Review of History and Fiction: A Study of Indo-Anglian Partition Novels by Fahmeeda Hilal”. The Creative Launcher, vol. 2, no. 3, Aug. 2017, pp. 102-9, https://www.thecreativelauncher.com/index.php/tcl/article/view/516.
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