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South Asian Review Volume 45, 2024 - Issue 1-2: The Partition of India: 75 Years and Beyond. Guest Editors: Nalini Iyer and Debali Mookerjea-Leonard
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Retooling Trauma: Partition as Celebratory Nationalism in Neoliberal Metropolitan Cinema

Rini Bhattacharya MehtaDepartment of Comparative and World Literature, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USACorrespondence[email protected]
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Pages 39-49 | Received 12 Mar 2023, Accepted 20 Oct 2023, Published online: 03 Nov 2023

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