Partition And The Practice Of Memory

Author : Churnjeet Mahn,Anne Murphy
Publisher : Springer
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2017-12-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9783319645162

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Partition and the Practice of Memory by Churnjeet Mahn,Anne Murphy Pdf

This edited collection attends to the locations of memory along and about the Indo-Pakistan and Indo-Bangladesh borders and the complex ways in which such memories are both allowed for and erased in the present. The collection is situated at the intersection of narratives connected to memory and commemoration in order to ask how memories have been formed and perpetuated across the imposition of these borders. It explores how national boundaries both silence memories and can be subverted in important ways, through consideration of physical sites and cultural practices on both sides of the India-Pakistan-Bangladesh borders that gesture towards that which has been lost – that is, the cultural whole that was the cultural regions of Punjab and Bengal before Partition, as well as broader cultural "wholes" across South Asia, across religious and linguistic lines – alongside forces that deny such connections. The chapters address issues of heritage and memory through specific case-studies on present-day memorial, museological and commemoration practices, through which sometimes competing memorial landscapes have been constructed, and show how memories of past traumas and histories become inscribed into diverse forms of cultural heritage (the built landscape, literature, film).

Author : Anjali Gera Roy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429017360

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Memories and Postmemories of the Partition of India by Anjali Gera Roy Pdf

This book examines the afterlife of Partition as imprinted on the memories and postmemories of Hindu and Sikh survivors from West Punjab to foreground the intersection between history, memory and narrative. It shows how survivors script their life stories to reinscribe tragic tales of violence and abjection into triumphalist sagas of fortitude, resilience, industry, enterprise and success. At the same time, it reveals the silences, stutters and stammers that interrupt survivors’ narrations to bring attention to the untold stories repressed in their consensual narratives. By drawing upon current research in history, memory, narrative, violence, trauma, affect, home, nation, borders, refugees and citizenship, the book analyzes the traumatizing effects of both the tangible and intangible violence of Partition by tracing the survivors’ journey from refugees to citizens as they struggle to make new homes and lives in an unhomely land. Moreover, arguing that the event of Partition radically transformed the notions of home, belonging, self and community, it shows that individuals affected by Partition produce a new ethics and aesthetic of displacement and embody new ways of being in the world. An important contribution to the field of Partition studies, this book will be of interest to researchers on South Asian history, memory, partition and postcolonial studies.

Author : Oishik Sircar
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781316512814

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Ways of Remembering by Oishik Sircar Pdf

Investigation into how a shared narrative of law and cinema produces ways of collectively remembering mass violence in postcolonial India.

Author : Scott Vetter,Adriano de Almeida,Rafael Antonioli,Urban Biel,Sylvain Delabarre,Bartłomiej Grabowski,Kristian Milos,Fray L Rodríguez,IBM Redbooks
Publisher : IBM Redbooks
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2015-01-19
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780738437309

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IBM PowerVM Best Practices by Scott Vetter,Adriano de Almeida,Rafael Antonioli,Urban Biel,Sylvain Delabarre,Bartłomiej Grabowski,Kristian Milos,Fray L Rodríguez,IBM Redbooks Pdf

This IBM® Redbooks® publication provides best practices for planning, installing, maintaining, and monitoring the IBM PowerVM® Enterprise Edition virtualization features on IBM POWER7® processor technology-based servers. PowerVM is a combination of hardware, PowerVM Hypervisor, and software, which includes other virtualization features, such as the Virtual I/O Server. This publication is intended for experienced IT specialists and IT architects who want to learn about PowerVM best practices, and focuses on the following topics: Planning and general best practices Installation, migration, and configuration Administration and maintenance Storage and networking Performance monitoring Security PowerVM advanced features This publication is written by a group of seven PowerVM experts from different countries around the world. These experts came together to bring their broad IT skills, depth of knowledge, and experiences from thousands of installations and configurations in different IBM client sites.

Author : Jill Didur
Publisher : Pearson Education India
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2007-09
Category : Gender identity in literature
ISBN : 8131712982

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Unsettling Partition: Literature, Gender, Memory by Jill Didur Pdf

Author : Radmila Švaříčková Slabáková
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000527162

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Family Memory by Radmila Švaříčková Slabáková Pdf

In Family Memory: Practices, Transmissions and Uses in a Global Perspective, researchers from five different continents explore the significance of family memory as an analytical tool and a research concept. Family memory is the most important memory community. This volume illustrates the range and power of family memories, often neglected by memory studies dealing with larger mnemonic entities. This book highlights the potential of family memory research for understanding societies’past and present and the need for a more comprehensive and systematic use of family memories. The contributors explain how family memories can be a valuable resource across a range of settings pertaining to individual and collective identities, national memories, intergenerational transmission processes and migration, transnational and diasporic studies. This volume presents the past, present and future of family memory as a prospective field of memory studies and the role of family memory in intergenerational transmission of social and political values. Family memory of violent events and genocide is also looked at, with discussions of the Armenian Genocide, Russian Revolution and Rwandan Genocide. This book will be an important read for cultural and oral historians; family historians; public historians; researchers in narrative studies, psychology, politics and international studies.

Author : Rossella Ciocca,Neelam Srivastava
Publisher : Springer
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137545503

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Indian Literature and the World by Rossella Ciocca,Neelam Srivastava Pdf

This book is about the most vibrant yet under-studied aspects of Indian writing today. It examines multilingualism, current debates on postcolonial versus world literature, the impact of translation on an “Indian” literary canon, and Indian authors’ engagement with the public sphere. The essays cover political activism and the North-East Tribal novel; the role of work in the contemporary Indian fictional imaginary; history as felt and reconceived by the acclaimed Hindi author Krishna Sobti; Bombay fictions; the Dalit autobiography in translation and its problematic international success; development, ecocriticism and activist literature; casteism and access to literacy in the South; and gender and diaspora as dominant themes in writing from and about the subcontinent. Troubling Eurocentric genre distinctions and the split between citizen and subject, the collection approaches Indian literature from the perspective of its constant interactions between private and public narratives, thereby proposing a method of reading Indian texts that goes beyond their habitual postcolonial identifications as “national allegories”.

Author : Dino Quintero,Thomas Ancel,Graeme Cassie,Rodrigo Ceron,Amr Darwish,Guilherme Felix,Jian Jun He,Bharathraj Keshavamurthy,Sreenivas Makineedi,Girish Nikalje,Sudipto Pal,Zubair Salie,Ashu Tiwary,IBM Redbooks
Publisher : IBM Redbooks
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-14
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780738437323

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Workload Optimized Systems: Tuning POWER7 for Analytics by Dino Quintero,Thomas Ancel,Graeme Cassie,Rodrigo Ceron,Amr Darwish,Guilherme Felix,Jian Jun He,Bharathraj Keshavamurthy,Sreenivas Makineedi,Girish Nikalje,Sudipto Pal,Zubair Salie,Ashu Tiwary,IBM Redbooks Pdf

This IBM® Redbooks® publication addresses topics to help clients to take advantage of the virtualization strengths of the POWER® platform to solve system resource utilization challenges and maximize system throughput and capacity. This publication examines the tools, utilities, documentation, and other resources available to help technical teams provide business solutions and support for Cognos® Business Intelligence (BI) and Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS®) on Power SystemsTM virtualized environments. This book addresses topics to help address complex high availability requirements, help maximize the availability of systems, and provide expert-level documentation to the worldwide support teams. This book strengthens the position of the Cognos and SPSS solutions with a well-defined and documented deployment model within a POWER system virtualized environment. This model provides clients with a planned foundation for security, scaling, capacity, resilience, and optimization. This book is targeted toward technical professionals (BI consultants, technical support staff, IT Architects, and IT Specialists) who are responsible for providing Smart Analytics solutions and support for Cognos and SPSS on Power Systems.

Author : Tarun K. Saint
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429560002

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Witnessing Partition by Tarun K. Saint Pdf

This book interrogates representations – fiction, literary motifs and narratives – of the Partition of India. Delving into the writings of Khushwant Singh, Balachandra Rajan, Attia Hosain, Abdullah Hussein, Rahi Masoom Raza and Anita Desai, among many others, it highlights the modes of ‘fictive’ testimony that sought to articulate the inarticulate – the experiences of trauma and violence, of loss and longing, and of diaspora and displacement. The author discusses representational techniques and formal innovations in writing across three generations of twentieth-century writers in India and Pakistan, invoking theoretical debates on history, memory, witnessing and trauma. With a new afterword, the second edition of this volume draws attention to recent developments in Partition studies and sheds new light as regards ongoing debates about an event that still casts a shadow on contemporary South Asian society and culture. A key text, this is essential reading for scholars, researchers and students of literary criticism, South Asian studies, cultural studies and modern history.

Author : Shauna Singh Baldwin
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780345810908

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What the Body Remembers by Shauna Singh Baldwin Pdf

Introducing an eloquent, sensual new Canadian voice that rings out in a first novel that is exquisitely rich and stunningly original. Roop is a sixteen-year-old village girl in the Punjab region of undivided India in 1937 whose family is respectable but poor -- her father is deep in debt and her mother is dead. Innocent and lovely, yet afraid she may not marry well, she is elated when she learns she is to become the second wife of a wealthy Sikh landowner, Sardarji, whose first wife, Satya, has failed to bear him any children. Roop trusts that the strong-willed Satya will treat her as a sister, but their relationship becomes far more ominous and complicated than expected. Roop's tale draws the reader immediately into her world, making the exotic familiar and the family's story startlingly universal, but What the Body Remembers is also very much Satya's story. She is mortified and angry when Sardarji takes Roop for a wife, a woman whose low status Satya takes as an affront to her position, and she adopts desperate measures to maintain her place in society and in her husband's heart. Yet it is also Sardarji's story, as the India he knows and understands -- the temples, cities, villages and countryside, all so vividly evoked -- begins to change. The escalating tensions in his personal life reflect those between Hindu and Muslim that lead to the cleaving of India and trap the Sikhs in a horrifying middle ground. Deeply imbued with the languages, customs and layered history of colonial India, What the Body Remembers is an absolute triumph of storytelling. Never before has a novel of love and partition been told from the point of view of the Sikh minority, never before through Sikh women's eyes. This is a novel to read, treasure and admire that, like its two compelling heroines, resists all efforts to be put aside.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-18
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780128003916

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Psychology of Learning and Motivation by Anonim Pdf

Psychology of Learning and Motivation publishes empirical and theoretical contributions in cognitive and experimental psychology, ranging from classical and instrumental conditioning to complex learning and problem solving. Each chapter thoughtfully integrates the writings of leading contributors, who present and discuss significant bodies of research relevant to their discipline. Volume 60 includes chapters on such varied topics as the balance between mindfulness and mind-wandering; institutions; implications for the nature of memory traces; repetition, spacing, and abstraction; immediate repetition paradigms; stimulus-response compatibility effects; environmental knowledge; and the control of visual attention. Volume 60 of the highly regarded Psychology of Learning and Motivation series An essential reference for researchers and academics in cognitive science Relevant to both applied concerns and basic research

Author : Brian Hall,Peter Bergner,Alon Shalev Housfater,Madhusudanan Kandasamy,Tulio Magno,Alex Mericas,Steve Munroe,Mauricio Oliveira,Bill Schmidt,Will Schmidt,Bernard King Smith,Julian Wang,Suresh Warrier,David Wendt,IBM Redbooks
Publisher : IBM Redbooks
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-31
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780738440927

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Performance Optimization and Tuning Techniques for IBM Power Systems Processors Including IBM POWER8 by Brian Hall,Peter Bergner,Alon Shalev Housfater,Madhusudanan Kandasamy,Tulio Magno,Alex Mericas,Steve Munroe,Mauricio Oliveira,Bill Schmidt,Will Schmidt,Bernard King Smith,Julian Wang,Suresh Warrier,David Wendt,IBM Redbooks Pdf

This IBM® Redbooks® publication focuses on gathering the correct technical information, and laying out simple guidance for optimizing code performance on IBM POWER8® processor-based systems that run the IBM AIX®, IBM i, or Linux operating systems. There is straightforward performance optimization that can be performed with a minimum of effort and without extensive previous experience or in-depth knowledge. The POWER8 processor contains many new and important performance features, such as support for eight hardware threads in each core and support for transactional memory. The POWER8 processor is a strict superset of the IBM POWER7+TM processor, and so all of the performance features of the POWER7+ processor, such as multiple page sizes, also appear in the POWER8 processor. Much of the technical information and guidance for optimizing performance on POWER8 processors that is presented in this guide also applies to POWER7+ and earlier processors, except where the guide explicitly indicates that a feature is new in the POWER8 processor. This guide strives to focus on optimizations that tend to be positive across a broad set of IBM POWER® processor chips and systems. Specific guidance is given for the POWER8 processor; however, the general guidance is applicable to the IBM POWER7+, IBM POWER7®, IBM POWER6®, IBM POWER5, and even to earlier processors. This guide is directed at personnel who are responsible for performing migration and implementation activities on POWER8 processor-based systems. This includes system administrators, system architects, network administrators, information architects, and database administrators (DBAs).

Author : Nadia Butt
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110367355

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Transcultural Memory and Globalised Modernity in Contemporary Indo-English Novels by Nadia Butt Pdf

This book places transcultural memory in the South Asian cultural and literary context. Divided into two parts, the book first defines transcultural memory in the age of globalised modernity both as a theory and social practice. Then it examines contemporary Indo-English novels from India and Pakistan with the theoretical and methodological tool of transcultural memory to shed new light on the connection between memory and modernity, and memory and South Asian cultures in the wake of new social and political transformations on the Indian subcontinent. A special focus on commemorative tropes in the novels not only show the possibility of a dialogue with different versions of the past, but also how such a dialogue shapes processes of remembrance between and beyond borders. Hence, the books comes up with alternative ways of reading the Indo-English novels, divesting the concept of (trans)cultural memory from its Euro- centrism and claiming it as equally significant in comprehending the new configurations of memory and modernity in non-Western locations.

Author : Michel Boivin,Manoël Pénicaud
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2023-10-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000985962

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Inter-religious Practices and Saint Veneration in the Muslim World by Michel Boivin,Manoël Pénicaud Pdf

Inter-religious Practices and Saint Veneration in the Muslim World studies the immortal saint Khidr/Khizr, a mysterious prophet and popular multi-religious figure and Sufi master venerated across the Muslim world. Focusing on the religious figure of Khidr/Khizr and the practice of religion from Middle East to South Asia, the chapters offer a multi-disciplinary analysis. The book addresses the plurality in the interpretation of Khizr and underlines the unique character of the figure, whose main characteristics are kept by Muslims, Christians, Hindus and Sikhs. Chapters examine vernacular Islamic piety and intercommunal religious practices and highlight the multiples ways through which Khidr/Khizr allows a conversation between different religious cultures. Furthermore, Khidr/Khizr is a most significant case study for deciphering the complex dialectic between the universal and the local. The contributors also argue that Khidr/Khizr played a leading role in the process of translating a religious tradition into the other, in incorporating him through an association with other sacred characters. Bringing together the different worship practices in countries with a very different cultural and religious background, the study includes research from the Balkans to the Punjabs in Pakistan and in India. It will be of interest to researchers in History, Anthropology, Sociology, Comparative Religious Studies, History of Religion, Islamic Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, South Asian Studies and Southeast European Studies.

Author : Henrik Åström Elmersjö,Anna Clark,Monika Vinterek
Publisher : Springer
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2017-04-04
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781137554321

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International Perspectives on Teaching Rival Histories by Henrik Åström Elmersjö,Anna Clark,Monika Vinterek Pdf

This book presents a survey of approaches to dealing with ‘rival histories’ in the classroom, arguing that approaching this problem requires great sensitivity to differing national, educational and narrative contexts. Contested narratives and disputed histories have long been an important issue in history-teaching all over the world, and have even been described as the ‘history’ or ‘culture’ wars. In this book, authors from across the globe ponder the question “what can teachers do (and what are they doing) to address conflicting narratives of the same past?”, and puts an epistemological issue at the heart of the discussion: what does it mean for the epistemology of history, if it is possible to teach more than one narrative? Divided into three sections that deal with historical cultures, multicultural societies and multiperspectivity, the chapters of the book showcase that dealing with rival histories is very much dependent on context, and that diverse teaching traditions and societal debates mean that teachers’ abilities in engaging with the teaching of rival narratives are very different. The volume will be compelling reading for students and researchers in the fields of education, history, sociology and philosophy, as well as practising teachers.