Session Details

Wednesday, 28 December

195. Remapping “Home” in a Divided Land: The Partition of British India

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Edison, Washington Hilton

A special session

Presiding: Debali Mookerjea-Leonard, Cornell Univ.

1. “Exiles at Home,” Debali Mookerjea-Leonard

2. “Dwelling in Loss: Tropes of Home and Homelessness in Ritwik Ghatak’s Films,” Manishita Dass, Swarthmore Coll.

3. “Partition and National Identity: Urdu Debates on Pakistan’s ‘Fundamental Problem,’” A. Sean Pue, Columbia Univ.

Close Window