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标题：THE PSYCHOLOGICAL TRAUMA OF PARTITIONED INDIA: A STUDY OF KHUSHWANT SINGH'S 'TRAIN TO PAKISTAN' AND AMITAV GHOSH'S 'THE SHADOW LINES'
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作者：MOSARRAF HOSSAIN
期刊名称：Indian Streams Research Journal
印刷版ISSN：2230-7850
出版年度：2012
卷号：II
期号：XI
出版社：Indian Streams Research Journal
摘要：India, once called 'Golden Bird' and the country of 'Unity in Diversity' got partitioned in 1947. It is not only the nation that has been divided but also the feelings; love and unity of the innocent citizens of the country got butchered. This is the fact which continuously haunts me as an Indian whenever I read these two novels – Khushwant Singh's 'Train to Pakistan' (1956) and Amitav Ghosh's 'The Shadow Lines (1988)'. The present paper is a humble endeavour to focus on the psychological trauma and the violence that the partitioned India had to suffer and how that has been vividly chronicled by these two novels.
关键词：partition;trauma;communal brutality;disillusionment;oasis of peace;heterogeneity of life