![]() The historiographic mise en abyme is also created in the novel by weaving multiple partition stories within the main plot, using flashbacks and flashforwards. With John Masters’ own claim of the novel being fictional as well as historical, the work immediately situates itself within the parameters of historiographic metafiction, a theoretical concept proposed by Linda Hutcheon. ![]() Bhowani Junction (1954), a novel by John Masters also provides a frame story, where, within the larger frame of Partition narrative, the characters tell their British and Anglo-Indian version of the events, providing three different perspectives to the narrative. Lady Roth and her friend, Clarissa, bond to create the. Since these narratives also lay claim to being partially historic in nature, they provide a historiographic insight into the event of the Indian Partition in 1947, using the medium of literature and film. A deliciously wicked tale of a broken man and his wifes quest to heal him and their marriage. Together, all these wide arrays of narratives and voices create the master narrative of Partition, and the ‘truth’ lies somewhere in between. ![]() ![]() The ongoing study assesses the presence of numerous partition narratives in literature and film, as a literary and historical mise en abyme a reflection of the original, frame within a frame, or a picture within a picture. ![]()
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