This volume explores the instrumental role played by memory in our daily and collective narratives and the manifold ways in which it can destabilise the ones prevailing in India. It explores manifestations of memory and postmemory through written narratives, within India's social, political and cultural memoryscape.
This volume explores the instrumental role played by memory in our daily and collective narratives and the manifold ways in which it can destabilise the ones prevailing in India. It explores manifestations of memory and postmemory through written narratives, within India's social, political and cultural memoryscape.
Elwin Susan John has been Assistant Professor of English at Sophia College (Autonomous), Mumbai, India since 2015. Her doctoral study was on the sociocultural intersections between skin and diseases by reading literary narratives on colonial South India. She is actively involved in interdisciplinary research ventures along with full-time teaching. She is the co-editor of Media Technology and Cultures of Memory, published in 2024. Amal P Mathews has been Assistant Professor of English at Assumption College (Autonomous), Kerala, India since 2012. Besides being involved in various teaching-learning initiatives at her workspace, she is also interested in exploring new dimensions of literature and translation. She is currently pursuing doctoral research in the interdisciplinary field of children's human rights in 21st century fiction. She is the co-editor of Media Technology and Cultures of Memory, published in 2024.
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List of figures vii List of contributors viii Acknowledgements x Introduction: Locating Literary and Cultural Registers of Memory, Identity, and Resistance in India 1 AMAL P MATHEWS AND ELWIN SUSAN JOHN PART I Recall: Shadowed and Mapped Memories 19 1 'Cryptopolitics': Memory, Landscape, Identity 21 SAHANA MUKHERJEE 2 The Rebels' Silhouette(s): Reception and Resistance in South Asia 31 RHITAMA BASAK 3 Of Translocal Memories: Remembering and Forgetting in New Town, West Bengal 44 DEBARUN SARKAR 4 Paradesi's Jewish Soul: A Tapestry of Memories Woven in Stone and Spirit 57 LAKSHMIPRIYA P SANTHOSH PART II Retell: Reconfigured and Reclaimed Memories 75 5 Memory as Praxis: Reconfigurations of the Home in Select Anglophone Texts from Northeast India 77 SAMRITA SINHA 6 Archives, Indigeneity, and Decolonization in Indian Children's Picture Books 90 SUDEBI GIRI AND BINAY SAWAIYAN 7 Bene Appétit: Consuming Food and Remembering Jewish Identity in the Selected Works of Esther David 109 ANANDHA LEKSHMI NAIR 8 Mythopoeic Menus from the Spice Coast: Food, Memory, and Community in Kerala 124 MEENU JOSE Index 137
List of figures vii List of contributors viii Acknowledgements x Introduction: Locating Literary and Cultural Registers of Memory, Identity, and Resistance in India 1 AMAL P MATHEWS AND ELWIN SUSAN JOHN PART I Recall: Shadowed and Mapped Memories 19 1 'Cryptopolitics': Memory, Landscape, Identity 21 SAHANA MUKHERJEE 2 The Rebels' Silhouette(s): Reception and Resistance in South Asia 31 RHITAMA BASAK 3 Of Translocal Memories: Remembering and Forgetting in New Town, West Bengal 44 DEBARUN SARKAR 4 Paradesi's Jewish Soul: A Tapestry of Memories Woven in Stone and Spirit 57 LAKSHMIPRIYA P SANTHOSH PART II Retell: Reconfigured and Reclaimed Memories 75 5 Memory as Praxis: Reconfigurations of the Home in Select Anglophone Texts from Northeast India 77 SAMRITA SINHA 6 Archives, Indigeneity, and Decolonization in Indian Children's Picture Books 90 SUDEBI GIRI AND BINAY SAWAIYAN 7 Bene Appétit: Consuming Food and Remembering Jewish Identity in the Selected Works of Esther David 109 ANANDHA LEKSHMI NAIR 8 Mythopoeic Menus from the Spice Coast: Food, Memory, and Community in Kerala 124 MEENU JOSE Index 137
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