Between Home and Exile

The present study is aimed to trace out the stages of liminality in the narrative literature of the partition in the subcontinent in 1947.The major theoretical insights have been taken from Homi k Bhabha’s concept of postcolonial Liminality. The data has been collected through interviews from the migrants of partition, on friend a friend sampling model, currently living in Punjab, Pakistan. It has been found that all the migrants had to undergo the three stages of liminality. The present study reveals the sense of loss and displacement faced by the migrants had been long lasting. Even after the lap of Seventy Eight years since the partition most of these migrants are in the liminal stage. It also reveals that the coping strategies of trauma were adopted by these migrants to mitigate their sense of loss and longing but could never come up with the sense of loss of their home

Liminality · Narrative · Psychology of self · Sense of place · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Indian History and Philosophy · South Asian Studies and Diaspora