Gendered Spectre
Trauma, cultural memory and the Indian partition
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 18979305 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Radhika Mohanram (0000-0003-4243-2509, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 917-934 |
| Publication date | 2011-11-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Cultural Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0950-2386 • E-ISSN: 1466-4348 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09502386.2011.575263 |
| OpenAlex | W2013364888 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 7 |
The focus of this essay is gendered collective memory of the partition of the Indian sub-continent in 1947, at the time of Independence from British rule. The essay addresses the question of whether there are similarities between trauma studies that developed within a Western Freudian psychoanalytic framework and the anti-colonial theory practiced by decolonizing nations. Taking two women's texts, the essay examines how gender manifests itself within the framework of trauma and how it is played out in collective memory of partition. The texts chosen raise interesting questions about gender, trauma and the nation and provide an alternative non-Western framework through which the trauma of partition can be read. The essay points to how the category of memory and its meanings vary in their national, cultural and historical specificity
Collective memory · Colonialism · Freudian slip · Historical trauma · Political science · Post colonialism · Psychoanalysis · Psychoanalytic theory · Sociology · Gender Studies · History · Law · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies · Psychology · South Asian Studies and Conflicts · South Asian Studies and Diaspora
| Citations per year | 0.83 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2020 - 2024 (5) |
| Highly cited | No |