ABSTRACT
This chapter, engaging with Jyotirmoyee Devi’s celebrated novel, Epar Ganga Opar Ganga, understands the female subject and her experience of Partition in close contestation with the general purview of Partition as a political-historical event. The chapter explores the undeniable influence that Partition as a cataclysm exerts on the familiar lived, locating the subject within the paradoxical possibilities of denial and empowerment. While the chapter takes into consideration the rigors of trauma and estrangement that the violating milieu often subjects the feminine to, it also understands the possibilities of transgression and transcendence that the feminine can cherish within this altered purview of the social. As such, the chapter comprehends the reconciliation between the feminine personal and the historical as curiously poised between the potencies of imposing subjugation and liberating emancipation.
