Ebooks for the Classroom+Faculty

Home, Uprooted: Oral Histories of India''s Partition
ISBN: 9780823256471
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Fordham University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: India -- History -- Partition 1947 -- Personal narratives; Refugees -- India -- Biography;

Home--how we experience it and what that says about the "selves" we come to occupy--is a crucial question of our contemporary moment. Home, Uprooted delivers one perspective on this question via cross-generational oral histories of Indian Partition refugees. Stories in this book are one iteration of how diasporic migrations might be enacted and what home--in its sense, absence, presence--might mean to displaced populations.

Devika Chawla is Associate Professor in the School of Communication Studies at Ohio University. She is the co-author of Intercultural Communication: An Ecological Approach and co-author of Liminal Traces: Storying, Performing, and Embodying Postcoloniality.