What is it about?
The chapter examines how women’s bodies become sites of memory, trauma, and resistance during the Partition of India, highlighting how postmemory and storytelling preserve silenced histories. It probes us to think, what kind of stories do we remember? And whose voices are missing?
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Why is it important?
It sheds light on women’s overlooked experiences during Partition, uncovering hidden truths that challenge dominant historical narratives and mediate truths that shape identity and understanding across generations.
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This page is a summary of: Remembering Partition: Postmemory and Gendered Representation of Bodily Entities in Shauna Singh Baldwin’s What the Body Remembers, April 2025, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.1163/9789004722514_017.
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