Zeba Rizvi’s memory-emotions of Partition
Silence and secularism- pyar
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12253633 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Deepra Dandekar (0000-0003-0295-0950, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 392-406 |
| Publication date | 2019-07-03 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Contemporary South Asia (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0958-4935 • E-ISSN: 1469-364X |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09584935.2019.1647143 |
| OpenAlex | W2963212409 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 17 |
This article analyses the Partition narrative of an Ashraf Muslim woman, who was seven years old at the time of Partition. Now resident in California, Zeba Rizvi was interviewed as part of the 1947 Partition Archive project, archived at the Stanford University Library. In this article, I interrogate relationships between memories and emotions of Partition, reconstituted through oral history that suggests the additional reframing of Partition-memory archives as an emotions archive. While Zeba’s interview reveals how emotional gaps are arbitrated by rapport, or absence thereof, I argue, using a phenomenological approach, that Partition memory-emotions conform to the narrator’s evolving and dynamic sense of self through time, that is also evident in the interview. Zeba Rizvi resists and reconstructs the politics of Partition in agential ways, using art to express secularism and its emotions: love-pyar, while re-inscribing and conforming to Ashraf values of gender, class and the celebration of heritage
Aesthetics · Art · Cognitive reframing · Literature · Narrative · Partition (number theory · Political science · Politics · Secularism · Silence · Sociology · Gender Studies · History · Law · Mathematics · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Psychology · Social Psychology · South Asian Studies and Conflicts · South Asian Studies and Diaspora
The partitions of memory
Partition and the Practice of Memory
An Ambiguous Journey to the City
Worrying about Emotions in History
Other Side of Silence
Haunting History
From the Ashes of 1947
Remembering Partition
Watching the Trauma
Sketch for a Theory of the Emotions
Are Emotions a Kind of Practice (And Is That What Makes Them Have a History)? A Bourdieuian Approach to Understanding Emotion
In Defense of the Fragment
Can a Muslim Be an Indian
| Citations per year | 0.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2022 - 2024 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |