Displaced Enemies, Displaced Memories: Diaspora Memorial Politics of Partition and the Holocaust

Ethnos

Volumn 74, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 441-464

  Werbner, Pnina ^a  

^a KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

genocide; Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD); Muslim Council of Britain (MCB); myth; Pakistanis; Partition; Politics of Memory

Indexed keywords

EID: 79956186045     PISSN: 00141844     EISSN: 1469588X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00141840903201910     Document Type: Article

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