New Historicist Reading of Shauna Singh Baldwin’s What the Body Remembers

The paper analyses the novel What the Body Remembers by Shauna Singh Baldwin from the perspective of the theory of New Historicism. It looks at the reasons behind the genesis of the much researched work of historical fiction locating the text in the political, historical and socio-cultural context. Baldwin rewrites the troubled past which is firmly indicated by the usage of the word ‘Partition.’ The paper attempts at locating the novel in an historical hour, re-reading the historical text within the ‘frame’ of history.