ABSTRACT

After 24 years of the partition, the new neighboring country, Bangladesh, was born in 1971 in the Eastern region of India. The division of India and the birth of Bangladesh are, apparently, two unconnected events standing at two different times. However, researchers have found the incidents deeply interlinked. Kabir described partition not as an “event” but as an “ongoing process” while Zamindar termed this catastrophic event “a long partition” as the making of Pakistan and India involves years of social, political, and bureaucratic efforts. One of the main queries of this study is to find how partition is portrayed in Bangladeshi fictions. Do the fictions recognize the Liberation War of Bangladesh as an extension of the partition? In search of answers, the study inspects 12 Bengali novels focusing on partition and the Liberation War. This study is guided by the concept of “long partition” and the “Trauma theory” while it also takes Kabir’s theoretical proposition “Post-amnesia” into account.

摘要

分治24年后，新的邻国孟加拉国于1971年在印度东部地区诞生。印度的分裂和孟加拉的诞生显然是两个不同时期的两个互不关联的事件。然而，研究人员发现这些事件密切相关。Kabir 将分治描述为一个“持续的过程”而不是“事件”，而 Zamindar 将这一灾难性事件称为“长期分治”，因为巴基斯坦和印度的形成涉及多年的社会、政治和官僚主义努力。本研究的主要问题之一是找出孟加拉国小说中如何描绘分区。小说是否承认孟加拉国的解放战争是分治的延伸？为了寻找答案，该研究检查了 12 部孟加拉语小说，重点是分区和解放战争。