Birth of Nations: Representing the Partition of India in Bapsi Sidhwa's Cracking India

國家的誕生：席德華的《分裂印度》中印巴分裂之再現研究

馮品佳(Pin-chia Feng)

《長庚人文社會學報》 4卷2期 (2011/10) Pp. 225-240

https://doi.org/10.30114/CGJHSS.201110.0001

摘要

1949年的印巴分裂是南亞大陸建構後殖民獨立國家過程中的「原初的創傷」，許多南亞裔的創作者也不斷回顧這一段創傷經驗，試圖由不同的角度了解這個影響深遠的暴力事件與建國神話之間的複雜關係。對於幾個世代的南亞裔作家而言，不論是重現親身經歷或是重組家族傳說，創作者在書寫印巴分裂時有如強制性地重新記憶此一巨大創傷。本論文則聚焦研究巴基斯坦祆教後裔作家席德華1991年出版的自傳性小說《分裂印度》如何從弱勢族裔女性的觀點省思暴力與建國之間的關聯。

關鍵字

印巴分裂 ； 暴力 ； 席德華 ； 《分裂印度》

並列摘要

The partition of the Indian subcontinent in 1947 is an “originary trauma” in which the former British India is arbitrarily and forcefully divided. Many writers of South Asian descent are constantly looking backward at this traumatic experience to explore the relationship between violence and the myth of nation-building. Writing Partition narratives, in a sense, is almost like a compulsory act of “rememory” for the generations of South Asian peoples who have either personally experienced Partition or heard about it through family lore and legends. In this paper, I focus on exploring the connections between violence and the construction of nation-states, with a special emphasis on the artistic reconstruction of personal encounters with violence as represented in Bapsi Sidhwa’s Cracking India (1991).

並列關鍵字

Partition ； Violence ； Bapsi Sidhwa ； Cracking India

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