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While every single scholarly account of partition features accounts of violence, very few studies have focused on the use of space in the way in which violence is remembered and narrated. Using a detailed study of a number of oral history testimonies, as well as literature and cinema, this chapter examines how people maintain the sanctity of the home in memory by relegating the violence of partition to the margins. This insistence on a physical separation between the nostalgically reconstructed center of the happy home and the threatening violence from the margins is noticeable across partition narratives, and helps to construct an imaginary geography which allows for the complexities of an event remembered. |
