The Hybridity of Partition Novels in English: Reshaping National Identities in Amitav Ghosh’s The Shadow Lines and Kamila Shamsie’s Burnt Shadows

The 1947 Partition led to the division of the Indian subcontinent along religious lines and the creation of seemingly homogeneous Indian and Pakistani national identities. Yet such clear-cut national imaginings have long been questioned, notably in the Indian novel in English. By incorporating trope...

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Published in:	Commonwealth (Rodez, France) France), 2018-04, Vol.40 (2), p.69-79
Main Author:	Soukaï, Sandrine
Format:	Article
Language:	eng
Subjects:	Allusion Authorship Bildungsroman British & Irish literature Colonialism Cultural heritage Culture Death & dying English language English literature Exegesis & hermeneutics Gender studies Ghosh, Amitav Heroism & heroes Hinduism Humanities and Social Sciences Ideology Indian literature Indian motion pictures Islam Literary characters Literary criticism Literary devices Literature Logic Magical realism Multiculturalism & pluralism Mythology Narrative structure Narrative techniques Narratives National identity Novels Otherness Pakistani fiction Pakistani literature Partition of India Persian language Plot (Narrative) Politics Prose Religion Rushdie, Salman Sen, Amartya Trauma Travel literature Warranties Writers
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Summary:	The 1947 Partition led to the division of the Indian subcontinent along religious lines and the creation of seemingly homogeneous Indian and Pakistani national identities. Yet such clear-cut national imaginings have long been questioned, notably in the Indian novel in English. By incorporating tropes and forms from traditional Indian literatures into their novels, Amitav Ghosh and Kamila Shamsie give the genre a hybrid texture that shapes their multicultural understanding of national identity.
ISSN:	2270-0633 0395-6989 2534-6695