Partition literature is the literary response to the partition of India in 1947. The poems, short stories, memoirs, oral histories, and dramas in this genre of postcolonial studies are written in several languages, including Urdu, Hindi, Punjabi, Bengali, English, and Malayalam. Some common themes in these works include loss, communal violence, exile from home, displacement, divided families, fractured identities, women’s experiences, and psychological trauma.
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