Unsettling silences : the trauma of witnessing in Manto's "cold meat" and "open it".

• Main Author: Lim, Rebecca Sim Ming.
• Other Authors: Bede Tregear Scott
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities::Literature
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/44788
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The history of the Partition of India is characterized by the senseless violence that erupted across India and Pakistan in the form of rapes, abductions, forced exiles, and murder. The narrative accounts of these brutalities, however, especially in relation to the abduction and rape of women, were o...