Death in literature, especially post-colonial literature, can be seen as a metaphor of further resilience. In African post colonial literatures, for example “Things Fall Apart” by Chinua Achebe or “Season of Migration to the North” By Tayyib Salih, we find the death of the protagonist acts a liminal point for others characters as well as the readers to reflect upon the impact of colonisation. The memory of death itself acts as a form of resistance against the cultural imperialism perpetuated by the colonisers. Therefore the theme of death in literature creates an uncomfortable situation for the reader which leads to further exploration into the acts of violence causing the death.

In Partition literature as well, we see multiple references to ‘memory’, as a political point of explosion and revelation. Literary pieces like Bhisham Sahni’s Tamas, Khushwant Singh’s Train to Pakistan, or Toba Tek Singh by Sadat Hossein Manto, we see memory and the revelation that memories initiate, to form a basis of a resilient instinct, and celebrates resistance, and the entire discipline of it, realistically ot dramatically, or both.