| Popis: |
This chapter teases out the theoretical conclusions of the book, reinforcing the ways in which a study of the cultural and memorial legacy of partition can be used to complicate the story and, in the process, undermine state-endorsed historic narratives. Reading narratives of partition as examples of individual and collective agency also allows for a more complex conceptualization of agency. Remembering and narrating the moment when new nations came into being, many of the public and private forms of representation that this book examines provide examples of people trying to exert agency over the ways in which the spaces to which they belonged and which were being reorganized around them into new nation states. Agency through narration can then be seen as ways of trying to find new ways of belonging and articulating new forms of citizenship. |
