Volume III Special Issue V May 2023

Name of Author : Dr. Soumana Biswas

Title of the paper : Representation of Partition in Sorayya Khans Five Queens Road

Abstract: In this paper, I propose to analyse the way in which the generation after second and third generation writers that is, the generation which has not lived through the event of the Partition has remembered and represented the event and has created their own notion about the event based on their hearing of familial memories, reading of published testimonies, literature by first generation authors among others. I will analyse the trope of Postmemory of Partition as created by the generation after through the novel of Pakistani author, Sorayya Khan, Five Queens Road 2009. This particular work provides an interesting insight from the other side of the border as it represents the experiences of a Hindu man who refuses to leave Pakistan after the Partition. Khan intermingles her understanding of her familial memories with her research and tries to create a representation of Partition which tries to redefine todays understanding of human relations which is gradually finding its basis in communal biases.

Keywords : Partition, Postmemory, Trauma, Minority, Migration.

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Page Number : 24-26