Final Year Project

Project Title

Project Title: Violence and Memory: Through the Eyes of 1947 Partition and Literature

Description

Violence is like a historical process that keeps on living, affecting societies, and the human psyche, and can be found in memory, whether spoken or unspoken. This paper examined violence as seen in memory through the paradigm of historical processes. The paper studied the violence of the 1947 Partition and looked at how women’s memory of the violence they were victims of, shaped their memory and meaningfulness of their being that perhaps are carried forward in the present times. Particularly, it will look at how literary fiction reflected the memory of Partition as a vessel for violence that occurred at that time. Various historical literature, literary fiction, and literary analysis will be synthesized to understand violence and memory. The paper first examined how memory is defined within the paradigm of modernity, but also how it is defined in post-colonial theoretical terms. There is historical, analytical literature regarding violence as part of memory that exists, but this paper looked at the connection between memory and violence as painted through literary fiction. This literary fiction has been derived from memory of this violence while also preserving it for future generations.