Open AccessMemories of the 1947 Bengal Partition and Its Aftermath: Tanvir Mokammel’s Seemantorekha
Author(s) -
Sumallya Mukhopadhyay
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
studies in people’s history
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2349-7718
pISSN - 2348-4489
DOI - 10.1177/2348448921999039
Subject(s) - bengal , partition (number theory) , normative , ideology , premise , west bengal , space (punctuation) , sociology , history , geography , epistemology , political science , politics , law , mathematics , archaeology , philosophy , socioeconomics , linguistics , combinatorics , bay
This article examines Tanvir Mokammel’s documentary Seemantorekha as a historical text that opens a representational space to engage with the memories of the 1947 Bengal Partition. Seemantorekha documents the journey of four individuals to their erstwhile homes in Bangladesh and West Bengal. In the moment of seeing their ancestral homes, they share the ‘Third Space’ of being, the premise of which transcends the ideological normative of nations and borders.
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