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2021
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This article uses a comparative postcolonial approach to investigate colonialism’s displacement and dislocation of all beings, human and non-human, and to locate resistant writing in the selected postcolonial texts—Zakes Mda’s Ways of Dying and Zoya Phan’s Undaunted: My Struggle for Freedom and …
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2021
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As a postcolonial scholar and professor from more than one postcolony, the author knows the British colonizers’ “Divide and Rule” policies and their use of colonial binaries disseminated through the English education system continue to haunt the postcolonies and the diaspora even …
2020
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Sexual violence against Sikh women is often elided in fictional representations in the genre of the Partition narratives, while violence against male Sikhs appears through hyperbolic and hypermasculine tropes. When violence against Sikh women does appear, it is only through tropes of …
2020
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Written through memories of the Partition trauma ten brief years after the event, Khushwant Singh’s Train to Pakistan is set in a small village, Mano Majra, near the India–Pakistan border during the summer of 1947. Through two primary figures, the narrative represents …
2020
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Jaspal Kaur Singh
In Manoj Punj’s 2004 Punjabi film Des Hoyaa Prades , set in Punjab in the aftermath of the brutal retaliation against the Sikhs by the Indian Government following Gandhi’s assassination, I examine issues of violence, trauma, and dislocation due to land dispossession …
2020
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Sexism and gender violence occurring in the Sikh community is hidden or rarely mentioned in public narratives, meaning that women are effectively silenced and left out of the process of healing from racist and sexist violence. How can Sikh women become agents …
2020
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Amrita Pritam’s Pinjar: The Skeleton (first published in 1950) and her poetry represent the author’s memory of the Partition violence that she witnessed as a young Sikh woman, showing her attempts to transform the trauma into narrative and cultural memory. Sikh women, …
2020
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In this chapter I discuss Shonali Bose’s film and novel Amu (2004) to analyze issues of healing and forgiveness for the survivors of the 1984 Massacre. For survivors to work through individual and communal suffering, dialogue is imperative. For genuine healing leading …
2020
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The narrative in Shauna Singh Baldwin’s What the Body Remembers , which spans from colonial to postcolonial India, memorializes the Partition of India and the ensuing communal and gender violence from the perspective of a diasporic female Sikh writer. Baldwin remembers hearing …
2020
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This book examines the constructions and representations of male and female Sikhs in Indian and diasporic literature and culture through the consideration of the role of violence as constitutive of Sikh identity. How do Sikh men and women construct empowering identities within …