Multiples vioces are refracted through the narrative vioces to give way to the suppressed histories of the marginalized people.

The writers have invoked and awakened repressed or suppressed memories which were kept dormant deliberately or un-intentionally at subconscious arenas. On one side the novel form engages in documenting the personal testimonies, on another side, it provides a framework that facilitates the representation of the suppressed stories thus intervening the confines of official histories. The form and structure of narrative genre novel has facilitated the writers in articulating the traumatic event of partition. The book focuses on voice and narrative techniques within the novel and transgresses the confines of the Enlightenment discourse to reckon with conceptual categories such as community and belonging.Ent and depict the unrecorded and fragmented folk experiences, writers have taken support of a range of strategies of representation, including allegory, symbolization, myths, irony, motifs of ruins, mourning, mobilization and devastating time and different points of views.These fictive tools have enabled and facilitated these writers in shaping the incidents of partition with deeper insight.The novel form has enabled these writers to access counter/ alternative histories through memory, allegory, dreams, myths, stories and other inter-textual devices outside the domain of official historiography. It centers around the young Lenny, an upper class girl who suffers from polio. She creates a specifically female language and emphasizes the ingenious ways in which women characters in novels restore dignity and agency to their kin and beloved. Cracking India is a novel about the partition, or division, of India in 1947. Subramanian places women's literary imaginary at the margins of both the nation-state and the patriarchal community. This results in the opening of a new gateway into the thinking about violence and survival through a feminist, transnational lens. The author interweaves the literary landscapes of African-American writer Toni Morrison with the oeuvre of South Asian writers Mridula Garg, Tahmina Durrani, Amrita Pritam, Bapsi Sidhwa, and Mahasweta Devi. Women Writing Violence engages with select contemporary novels in which women characters resist violence and redefine notions of community by imagining bonds with the exiled and the disempowered.

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