Talk - Frontiers of History May 28, 2009

Talk - Frontiers of History. Memory as History: A Daughters Testimony. Speaker: Dr. Nonica Datta, author of Violence, Martyrdom and Partition: A Daughters Testimony (OUP, 2009). This talk will move beyond a historical event and well-established historical facts to recreate the memory of a colonial subject, living in postcolonial times, as a historical narrative and as a parallel history of events and non-events, memory and history, testimony and experience. Defying the distinction between victim and victimizer, it will unfold the shifts, ambiguities, silences and contradictions in an individual memory.

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