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Canvassing Culture and Civility: Re-visiting Partition Literature through Nanak Singh’s Hymns in Blood

  • Unique Paper ID: 165575
  • Volume: 11
  • Issue: 1
  • PageNo: 1278-1281
  • Abstract:
  • The genuflection that independence brought to the Indian mind, for a nation that’ signed its “tryst with destiny” at the stroke of midnight on 15th August, 1947, still persists as a benchmark for the Indian mind, socially and literally. And yet, the accolades have hardly been able to gloss over the brutality and pain that partition brought in its train. Literature and other mediums of expression, till date, represent the event of partition by constructing a verisimilitude of the times when it took place. Two patterns were discovered herein: first, that these representations predominantly focus on the goriness and absolute anarchy witnessed then, coupled with the déshabillé language and a cultural stasis represented through its conspicuous absence. Secondly, the ‘ugliness’ dwindling in intensity with the passage of time and the representations closer to partition bearing the imprint of the agony more than those that followed them. An exception to both the patterns is Nanak Singh’s Khoon de Sohile, a novel composed in 1948 and translated into English, as Hymns in Blood, by his grandson Navdeep Suri in 2002. The paper tries to assess how Singh, constructs the ordeal of Partition of the Punjab and the Punjabis. An attempt shall be made to express how Singh, ‘deviated,’ thematically and structurally, from the norm of Partition Literature in vogue in the immediate aftermath of Partition and yet, in no lackadaisical manner, foregrounded the pain and trauma of Partition. Finally, the paper shall strive to ascertain the authenticity of the literary sensibility of Singh in relation to the event of Partition.
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  • ISSN: 2349-6002
  • Volume: 11
  • Issue: 1
  • PageNo: 1278-1281

Canvassing Culture and Civility: Re-visiting Partition Literature through Nanak Singh’s Hymns in Blood

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