ADMIRING BORDER AND FORGETTING PARTITION: A POSTMEMORY STUDY OF CHOTODER BORDER BY MANJIRA SAHA
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Postmemory is an epigenetic study that investigates the transmission of the memory of the earlier generation to their descendants through the art the later generation created. Researchers have shown that the progeny of Partition refugees too inherit the traumatic memories and nostalgia for the lost land of their past generation in their study conducted on the second or third-generation refugees of the Partition of India. However, that transference of trauma seems to be largely absent in the case of the fourth-generation refugee- progeny as exhibited in Chotoder Border ( ‘Border, As the Children Have Seen’ in English) by Manjira Saha. It should be noted that they possess a soft corner for their ancestral homeland that their fore-generation had left behind despite being conscious of the pain, suffering, and sense of separation the fore-generation had gone through while leaving. Thus, Partition and border are different phenomena for the present generations of Partitioned refugees. The purpose of this research is to find out the reason behind this gradual diverse change in standpoints among the generations. For that, a deductive, analytical, and objective method is intended to be adopted within the thematic framework of the concept of postmemory.
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