A comparative study of partition literature

1. PRESENTATION ON RESEARCH
PAPER
 Topic:The Invisible Borders:A Comparative
Study of Ice Candy Man And Border And
Boundaries.
 Presented by : Guided by:
 Sarika Chahal Dr.Manju
 Uid:18MLE1020

2. ABSTRACT
 The paper entitled “The Invisible Borders: A Comparative
Study, Ice Candy Man by Bapsi Sidhwa and The Borders And
Boundaries by Ritu Menon” highlights the impacts of partition
which have been articulated specially by the women writers
like Mumtaz Shah Nwaz, Mehr Nigar Masroor, Bapsi Sidwa
and Ritu Menon on the basis of their unique experiences
during partition. Since the actors of partition were men so it is
considered male construct and this was the reason why
Partition Literature contains most of the male authored texts
like Kushwant Singh, Amitav Ghosh, Manto, Intzaar Hussain
to name a few. Sidhwa's Ice Candy Man and Menon's Borders
And Boundries weave together the idea of freedom by
juxtaposing social and political, past and present in diverse
contexts. This study will help to give an insight of communal
hatred, gender discrimination in the patriarchal society during
partition.

3. INTRODUCTION
 As far as feminist historiography of partition has
been concerned Ritu Menon and Bapsi Sidhwa
make women the focus of their inquiry. Borders and
Boundaries is based mainly on women’s stories
and interview in their own words. The Ice Candy
Man looks at partition through experience of
lenny(around the same age Sidhwa was at the time
of partition) whose family was not directly affected
by communal riots but who has an emotional
compact with some of the people who are –
beloved Ayah and the local Ice candy man. These
two novels are dealing with partition and its
meaning it effect on wealth, health, society, poverty
and mode of thinking etc.

4. POINTS OF DISCUSSION
 What is really like to live as a woman in those year
of voilence.
 What was nation to them? Religion? Community?
And Freedom itself?
 How did they find their place in this land of redrawn
boundaries?

5. REVIEW OF LITERATURE
 Apart from these novels, there are a large number
of emotionally charged short stories and works on
communal incidents and marganalization of women
that reveals the anger and disgust of innocents.
There are stories which are full of lamentation and
consolation and bring out the pathos of the situation
by writers like- Saadat Hasan Manto, Heena Khan,
Amrita Pritam, Amitav Ghosh, Salman Rushdie,
Altaf Fatima, Razia Butt. All describe an unusually
vicious time in which the sustaining norms of
society as it had existed in the past are absent.

7. REFERENCES