Abstract
ABSTRACT Although traumatic memories of the subcontinental Partition left indelible scars on South Asian diasporas dispersed worldwide, Partition has been examined from a nation-centric lens. Lately, Partition scholars have emphasised the need to investigate its traumatising effects beyond the nation states of India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. Arguing that when it comes to geographically and temporally displaced diasporic subjects, memory becomes the primary tool for reconstructing a history for oneself and one’s community in the host-land, this paper shows how the diasporic filmmaker re-creates the past through ‘fictions of memory’ (Neumann 2008, “The Literary Representation of Memory.” In Media and Cultural Memory, edited by A. Erll and A. Nünning, 333–343. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter & Co.) by mixing fragments of facts with fiction. The South Asian diaspora films on Partition selected for this study are Deepa Mehta’s 1947 Earth (1999), Meera Nair’s Monsoon Wedding (2001) and Gurinder Chadha’s The Viceroy’s House (2017).
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