Speaking Havoc: Social Suffering and South Asian Narratives
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viii+246p.
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This book investigates the possible interventions of literary and cinematic fictions into the politics and reception of social suffering. The term 'social suffering' here refers to a broader set of traumatic phenomena in South Asia. It covers a realm of painful experience--from the beginning of the twentieth century-associated with the loss and distress of social and political crises. Focusing on Central Events such as the Partition of 1947, the ...