Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Negotiating the effects of historical trauma: novels of the 1940s and 1950s; 2 Partition's afterlife: perspectives from the 1960s and 1970s; 3 Narrativising the 'time of Partition': writings since 1980; 4 Short stories about the Partition: towards a self-reflexive mode of testimony; 5 Reinventing testimonial fiction in the wake of the Partition; Afterword; Bibliography; Index