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2025
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| author | Sarkar, Debapriya |
| author_facet | Sarkar, Debapriya |
| contents | <p><strong><span lang="EN-GB">Abstract: </span></strong><span lang="EN-GB">Karachi, as a frontier province, has always been subjected to demographic transformation several times owing to the migrations that took place during and after the Partition of 1947. It was overwhelmed with atrocious violence due to the civil war of 1971, the increasing alienation of the Muhajirs, and the politics of autochthony since the 1980s. Kamila Shamsie's novel, <em>Kartography </em><span>(2001)</span><em>,</em> situates the memories of the novel's characters to remind us of the core essence of Karachi, which at its best is “intimate with strangers” (190). Intimacy as a concept eludes concrete definitions. Then, how do we characterise this intimacy through personal memories? Does it serve as an alternative narrative against the memories of violence and hate that prevailed between the Sindhis and the Muhajirs? Can it heal the indelible mark of violence that abounds in the memories of the inhabitants of Karachi? This paper aims to look into how memories of intimacy between a place and a person establish what Yi-Fu Tuan marks as the <span>quality of</span><em> </em><span>“at homeness”</span> (220) of Karachi against the traumatic collective memory of the migrants caused by the partitions of 1947 and 1971 in the novel, <em>Kartography</em>. Through a close reading of the novel contextualized against the works of Oskar Verkaaik, Rita Kothari, Priya Kumar, Pierre Nora, Karen J. Prager, and Yi-Fu Tuan, this paper attempts to answer whether personal memories of what makes a place ‘home’ stir further problems of autochthony or instil a camaraderie in the face of the collective memory constituting warfare, communal and ethnic divides, and bloodshed. Lastly, it would also explore the possibility of a new approach towards memory studies where one attempts to heal trauma through intimate memories of harmony. </span></p> |
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| spellingShingle | Intimate Cartographies: Healing Partition Trauma Through Personal Memory in Shamsie's Kartography Sarkar, Debapriya Personal Memories Intimacy Trauma Karachi Healing <p><strong><span lang="EN-GB">Abstract: </span></strong><span lang="EN-GB">Karachi, as a frontier province, has always been subjected to demographic transformation several times owing to the migrations that took place during and after the Partition of 1947. It was overwhelmed with atrocious violence due to the civil war of 1971, the increasing alienation of the Muhajirs, and the politics of autochthony since the 1980s. Kamila Shamsie's novel, <em>Kartography </em><span>(2001)</span><em>,</em> situates the memories of the novel's characters to remind us of the core essence of Karachi, which at its best is “intimate with strangers” (190). Intimacy as a concept eludes concrete definitions. Then, how do we characterise this intimacy through personal memories? Does it serve as an alternative narrative against the memories of violence and hate that prevailed between the Sindhis and the Muhajirs? Can it heal the indelible mark of violence that abounds in the memories of the inhabitants of Karachi? This paper aims to look into how memories of intimacy between a place and a person establish what Yi-Fu Tuan marks as the <span>quality of</span><em> </em><span>“at homeness”</span> (220) of Karachi against the traumatic collective memory of the migrants caused by the partitions of 1947 and 1971 in the novel, <em>Kartography</em>. Through a close reading of the novel contextualized against the works of Oskar Verkaaik, Rita Kothari, Priya Kumar, Pierre Nora, Karen J. Prager, and Yi-Fu Tuan, this paper attempts to answer whether personal memories of what makes a place ‘home’ stir further problems of autochthony or instil a camaraderie in the face of the collective memory constituting warfare, communal and ethnic divides, and bloodshed. Lastly, it would also explore the possibility of a new approach towards memory studies where one attempts to heal trauma through intimate memories of harmony. </span></p> |
| title | Intimate Cartographies: Healing Partition Trauma Through Personal Memory in Shamsie's Kartography |
| topic | Personal Memories Intimacy Trauma Karachi Healing |
| url | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15823721 |