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The partition of the Indian subcontinent into India and Pakistan in
1947 was a crucial rupture in which the creation of boarders became the
defining traumatic event of the history. This paper is invested in exploring
the representation of 1947’s and 1971’s partition in Intizar Husain’s novel
Basti through the psychoanalytic and theoretical paradigm of trauma
extracted from Cathy Caruth’s Trauma: Explorations in Memory. It
primarily focuses on the discursive representation of trauma as an ongoing
process for the immigrants who migrated as a result of partition. In Basti
the loss is elucidated, lightened and dignified by the return of memories
and these memories become the source of creating space for that loss in
the consciousness of the displaced person. Husain himself was an
immigrant who first migrated from village Rupnagar to Vayaspur and then
from Vayaspur to Lahore (Pakistan). Therefore, in his writing there is an
amalgamation of his personal experiences with the experiences of his
characters which develops a blur boundary between fiction and reality.
Memory and nostalgia are two driving forces in his narrative. In this
regard, he has accentuated the personal memoirs of the sufferers’ vis-à-vis
the perpetual nostalgia of migration. I argue that the identity of an
immigrant becomes vulnerable when it is subjected to the assimilation of
the foreign land and its culture. I consider trauma as a conceptual lens to
examine how the geographical reconstruction of borders leads to the
reconstruction of individual as well as collective identity. The paramount
impression of trauma is incorporated in the memory system. This paper
pursues to find through the system of memory, how the progressive
impacts of the past shape the present and offers us means to rethink future.
Rubab Asim, Khurshid Alam. (2019) Loss and Latency of Migration in Basti, Bazyaft, Volume-34-35, Issue-2.
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