Remembrance Forgetting And Utterance

Name: Remembrance Forgetting And Utterance
Brand: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Taylor & Francis Ltd

Remembrance, Forgetting and UtteranceRethinking the Politics of Memory in South Asia\nAuthor(s): Isha Dubey\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge India\nISBN-13: 9781032291802, 978-1032291802\nSynopsis\nThis volume explores new avenues in the field of memory studies. Going beyond Western frames of reference, it shows how religion, region, caste, and class and their intersectionality and the fraught legacy of colonialism shape acts of both collective remembrance and forgetting in South Asia. The chapters in the volume call for a substantive rethinking of the conceptual and methodological frameworks in the field by posing critical questions such as, how do these layers play into and inform the processes of crafting and curating national histories and memories in South Asia? What are the silences that exist within it and how are they contested? What are the alternative modes of remembering, marking and accounting for difficult pasts b.