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The affective subjectivity of the writers-Abdullah Hussein (The Weary Generations) and Bapsi Sidhwa (Cracking India)-discredits the mainstream Indian historiography, valorization of the independence struggle, and trivialization of partition issues. This paper analyzes selected partition novels in the light of affect theory in order to demonstrate how Pakistani writers counter the Indian mainstream nationalist line and offer alternative revisionary perspectives on independence that also led to partition violence.
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