Framing Memories of Colonial Violence: Tracing Shifts in Narratives of the Bengal Famine

V. Bhagyashri

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Chapter 9 Framing Memories of Colonial Violence: Tracing Shifts in Narratives of the Bengal Famine

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Page Range:: 149–168

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004722514_011

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This article applies framing theories derived from communications studies to collective memory. It argues that “framing memory” enhances memorability and has psychological effects on the public. It does so with reference to memories of the Bengal Famine (1943), an event that has been presented and re-presented within several frames over the decades. Though literature and scholarship addressed the famine early on, compared to the scope of the event the number of representations remained rather meagre. This article focuses on two recent re-narrativized memories of the famine, Churchill’s Secret War: The British Empire and the Ravaging of India During World War II in 2010 and Hungry Bengal: War, Famine and the End of Empire in 2015. These new narratives attempt to transcend famine memories from being inert to active. Some of them place the Bengal Famine within a ‘genocide’ frame, which offers a new framework of interpretation (beyond earlier ‘issue’ frames to ‘perpetration’ frames) and enhances memorability. The paper concludes that the ’‘genocide’ frame (though problematic in several ways) has mobilized public opinion, initiated an attitude change, and engendered memory activism.

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Memory Studies in India

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丛编： Mobilizing Memories, 卷： 5

ISBN:: 9789004722514

出版社:: Brill

印刷出版日期:: 21 Apr 2025

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