Urvashi Butalia: 2 books

The Persistence of Memory

by Urvashi Butalia
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2015

Some journeys exist in the mind. Bir Bahadur Singh is haunted by the longing to return. Forced to leave his village in Pakistan during Partition in traumatic circumstances, he makes the journey back, fifty-four years later, to pick up the connections from that long past time. In that wrenching journey,...

Global Memoryscapes

Contesting Remembrance in a Transnational Age

by Christine Lavrence, Ekaterina V. Haskins, Cynthia D. Cervantes
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2011

Normal0falsefalsefalseMicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Normal0falsefalsefalseEN-USX-NONEX-NONEMicrosoftInternetExplorer4The transnational movement of people and ideas has led scholars throughout the humanities to reconsider many core concepts. Among them is the notion of public memory and...