WHEN THE BORDER BECOMES A FRONTIER

Suvorova, Anna

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S086919080000616-4-1

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Issue 4

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107-112

Abstract

The Partition of India became one of the main subjects in the contemporary literatures and cinema of the Indian Subcontinent. It is hardly possible to name a notable Hindi, Urdu, Panjabi or Bengali writer who has not paid tribute to this historical tragedy. In most of their literary works the plot is developed at the border between two new states which can be understood as a civilizational frontier or a metaphor of ethnic, national and confessional division between India and Pakistan. In the present article "border" and "frontier" dichotomy and its metaphorical meaning are represented as a show-case including the short-story "Toba Tek Singh" (1955) by Saadat Hasan Manto, the novel "Train to Pakistan" (1956) by Khushwant Singh, and the novel "Bhowani Junction" (1954) by John Masters screened in 1956 by George Cukor.

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partition of India 1947, frontier, border zone, frontier, identity types, orientation metaphors

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01.07.2014

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GOST	Suvorova A. WHEN THE BORDER BECOMES A FRONTIER // Vostok. Afro-aziatskie obshchestva: istoriia i sovremennost. – 2014. – Issue 4 C. 107-112 .
MLA	Suvorova, Anna "WHEN THE BORDER BECOMES A FRONTIER." Vostok. Afro-aziatskie obshchestva: istoriia i sovremennost. 4 (2014).:107-112.
APA	Suvorova A. (2014). WHEN THE BORDER BECOMES A FRONTIER. Vostok. Afro-aziatskie obshchestva: istoriia i sovremennost. no. 4, pp.107-112


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