Abstract
The end of colonialism in the subcontinent in 1947 left India and Pakistan with a disputed border and dislocation, just as it did in the contested border between Israel and Palestine. Qurratulain Hyder’s River of Fire (1959) narrates the two-thousand-year history of India through four recurring characters who suffer from partition. Radwa Ashour’s The Woman from Tantoura depicts the up-rootedness of a Palestinian family. This paper explores how Hyder and Ashour expose in their fictive historiographies the conflicted boundaries and dislocation in both countries. I argue that both texts are narratives of assertion rather than subalternity. Keywords Partition, historiography, Nakbbah, Palestine, Pakistan, Muslim League, subaltern, Spivak
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