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27 августа 2014 года

Когда граница становится фронтиром

Keywords: The Partition of India in 1947, state border, frontier, types of identity, the orientation metaphors

The Partition of India became one of the main subjects in the contemporary literatures and cinema of the Indian Subcontinent. It is hardly possible to name a notable Hindi, Urdu, Panjabi or Bengali writer who did not pay tribute to this historical tragedy. In most of their literary works the plot is developed at the border between two new states which can be understood as a civilizational frontier or a metaphor of ethnic, national and confessional division between India and Pakistan. In the present article “border” and “frontier” dichotomy and its metaphorical meaning are represented as a show-case including the short-story “Toba Tek Singh” (1955) by Saadat Hasan Manto, the novel “Train to Pakistan” (1956) by Khushwant Singh, and the novel “Bhowani Junction” (1954) by John Masters screened in 1956 by George Cukor

Восток. Афро-азиатские общества: история и современность '2014, №4, с.107-112

Объем издания: С. 107–112

 
Раздел Индии (The Partition) сформировал современную литературу и искусство субконтинента точно так же, как Вторая мировая война и Холокост – литературу и искусство России и стран Запада второй половины ХХ в.

Ключевые слова: раздел Индии, Индия, современная литература, авторское кино, граница.