“I Am a Refugee in This Land”: Performative Narration, Recollection, and Resilience in Refugee Narratives of West Bengal, India

IF 0.2 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Narrative Culture Pub Date : 2022-03-01 DOI:10.1353/ncu.2022.0009

Sumallya Mukhopadhyay

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Abstract

Abstract:The article extends the reconstructive agenda of oral history with a view to establishing the idea that it is not merely to reconstruct history but to study the act of recollection as a performative presentation of the narrator’s life story. The performative interview establishes the oral narrative as a “momentous” occasion by following the techniques an individual uses to frame the narrative text. The theoretical arguments are developed by studying the refugee narratives of those displaced by 1947 Bengal Partition. The performative narration interrogates the immediate refugee identity and depicts the refugees as resilient people capable of self-sustaining in adverse situations.

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“我是这片土地上的难民”:印度西孟加拉邦难民叙事中的表演叙事、回忆与复原力

摘要:本文扩展了口述历史的重建议程，旨在确立口述历史不仅仅是重建历史，而是研究作为叙述者生活故事的表演呈现的回忆行为。表演性访谈通过遵循个人用来构建叙事文本的技巧，将口头叙事建立为一个“重大”场合。理论论点是通过研究1947年孟加拉分治造成的流离失所者的难民叙述而发展起来的。表演叙事质疑难民的直接身份，并将难民描述为能够在不利情况下自我维持的适应力强的人。

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Narrative Culture HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY-

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期刊介绍： Narrative Culture is a new journal that conceptualizes narration as a broad and pervasive human practice, warranting a holistic perspective that grasps the place of narrative comparatively across time and space. The journal invites contributions that document, discuss and theorize narrative culture, and offers a platform that integrates approaches spread across various disciplines. The field of narrative culture thus outlined is defined by a large variety of forms of popular narratives, including not only oral and written texts, but also narratives in images, three-dimensional art, customs, rituals, drama, dance, music, and so forth. Narrative Culture is peer-reviewed and international as well as interdisciplinary in orientation.