Between Home and Exile: Liminal Spaces in the Narrative Literature of Partition in Sub-Continent in 1947
The present study is aimed to trace out the stages of liminality in the narrative literature of the partition in the subcontinent in 1947.The major theoretical insights have been taken from Homi k Bhabha’s concept of postcolonial Liminality. The data has been collected through interviews from the migrants of partition, on friend a friend sampling model, currently living in Punjab, Pakistan. It has been found that all the migrants had to undergo the three stages of liminality. The present study reveals the sense of loss and displacement faced by the migrants had been long lasting. Even after the lap of Seventy Eight years since the partition most of these migrants are in the liminal stage. It also reveals that the coping strategies of trauma were adopted by these migrants to mitigate their sense of loss and longing but could never come up with the sense of loss of their home.
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Partition, Migrants, Subcontinent, Sense of Loss, Displacement and Coping Strategies
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(1) Abdul Rashid
Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of Reading, United Kingdom / Lecturer, Department of English, University of Layyah, Punjab, Pakistan.
(2) Saima Khyzer
Lecturer, Department of English, University of Layyah, Punjab, Pakistan.
(3) Misbah Hameed
Lecturer, Department of English, University of Layyah, Punjab, Pakistan.
Cite this article
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APA : Rashid, A., Khyzer, S., & Hameed, M. (2026). Between Home and Exile: Liminal Spaces in the Narrative Literature of Partition in Sub-Continent in 1947. Global Sociological Review, XI(I), 93-101. https://doi.org/10.31703/gsr.2026(XI-I).09
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CHICAGO : Rashid, Abdul, Saima Khyzer, and Misbah Hameed. 2026. "Between Home and Exile: Liminal Spaces in the Narrative Literature of Partition in Sub-Continent in 1947." Global Sociological Review, XI (I): 93-101 doi: 10.31703/gsr.2026(XI-I).09
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HARVARD : RASHID, A., KHYZER, S. & HAMEED, M. 2026. Between Home and Exile: Liminal Spaces in the Narrative Literature of Partition in Sub-Continent in 1947. Global Sociological Review, XI, 93-101.
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MHRA : Rashid, Abdul, Saima Khyzer, and Misbah Hameed. 2026. "Between Home and Exile: Liminal Spaces in the Narrative Literature of Partition in Sub-Continent in 1947." Global Sociological Review, XI: 93-101
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MLA : Rashid, Abdul, Saima Khyzer, and Misbah Hameed. "Between Home and Exile: Liminal Spaces in the Narrative Literature of Partition in Sub-Continent in 1947." Global Sociological Review, XI.I (2026): 93-101 Print.
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OXFORD : Rashid, Abdul, Khyzer, Saima, and Hameed, Misbah (2026), "Between Home and Exile: Liminal Spaces in the Narrative Literature of Partition in Sub-Continent in 1947", Global Sociological Review, XI (I), 93-101
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TURABIAN : Rashid, Abdul, Saima Khyzer, and Misbah Hameed. "Between Home and Exile: Liminal Spaces in the Narrative Literature of Partition in Sub-Continent in 1947." Global Sociological Review XI, no. I (2026): 93-101. https://doi.org/10.31703/gsr.2026(XI-I).09