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.
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.
Jaspal Kaur Singh is Professor of English Literature at Northern Michigan University, Marquette, Michigan, USA. She received her PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Oregon. She was a Rockefeller Foundation Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Gender in Africa, James S. Coleman African Studies Center, UCLA and a Fulbright Nehru Senior Scholar in India. Her publications include a monograph, a coauthored book, and three coedited books: Representation and Resistance: South Asian and African Women Writers at Home and in the Diaspora (2008); Narrating the New Nation: South African Indian Writing (2018); Indian Writers: Transnationalisms and Diasporas (2010); Trauma, Resistance, Reconciliation in Post-1994 South African Writing (2010); and Negotiating Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Turkey (2016).
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction 1. Cultural Syncretism vs. Collective Psychic Fragmentation: The Construction of Sikh Gendered Identity 2. Mughal India and Colonialism: Revising History, Gender Identity and Violence in Bhai Veer Singh's Sundri 3. Communal and Gender Violence in Shauna Singh Baldwin's What the Body Remembers 4. Gendered Violence and Partition Memory in Postcolonial Novels and Films 5. Partition Narratives and Sikh Gendered Identity Construction: Memory of Violence in Khushwant Singh's 1956 Novel Train to Pakistan 6. Gender and Memories of Trauma in Amrita Pritam's 1950 Novella Pinjar and Poems 7. Violence, State Terror, and Gendered Sikh Identity: The Aftermath of Operation Blue Star in Gulzar's 1996 Hindi film, Maachis (Matches) and Anurag Singh's 2013 Punjabi Film, Punjab 1984 8. Traumatized Sikh Male and Female Subjects: Representations of Trauma and Memory in Amitoj Mann's 2003 Punjabi Film Hawayein 9. (En)Gendering Nations in Manoj Punj's 2004 Punjabi Film, Des Hoyaa Prades: When One's Nation Becomes a Foreign Territory 10. Perpetrator Nation and the Cultural Memorialization of Sikh Trauma in Shonali Bose's Novel, Amu (2004) 11. Once Again, the Turban: Terror and Gendered Sikh Identity in Liam Delzell's Punjabi Cab, Satdeep Singh's Taaj , and Sarab Singh Neelam's Ocean of Pearls 12. Gendering the Sikh Diaspora and Transnational Feminism: The Construction of Sexuality in the Poems of Sukhjeet Kaur Khalsa (2016), Sharapal Ruprai (2014) and Rupi Kaur (2015 and 2017). Bibliography
Introduction 1. Cultural Syncretism vs. Collective Psychic Fragmentation: The Construction of Sikh Gendered Identity 2. Mughal India and Colonialism: Revising History, Gender Identity and Violence in Bhai Veer Singh's Sundri 3. Communal and Gender Violence in Shauna Singh Baldwin's What the Body Remembers 4. Gendered Violence and Partition Memory in Postcolonial Novels and Films 5. Partition Narratives and Sikh Gendered Identity Construction: Memory of Violence in Khushwant Singh's 1956 Novel Train to Pakistan 6. Gender and Memories of Trauma in Amrita Pritam's 1950 Novella Pinjar and Poems 7. Violence, State Terror, and Gendered Sikh Identity: The Aftermath of Operation Blue Star in Gulzar's 1996 Hindi film, Maachis (Matches) and Anurag Singh's 2013 Punjabi Film, Punjab 1984 8. Traumatized Sikh Male and Female Subjects: Representations of Trauma and Memory in Amitoj Mann's 2003 Punjabi Film Hawayein 9. (En)Gendering Nations in Manoj Punj's 2004 Punjabi Film, Des Hoyaa Prades: When One's Nation Becomes a Foreign Territory 10. Perpetrator Nation and the Cultural Memorialization of Sikh Trauma in Shonali Bose's Novel, Amu (2004) 11. Once Again, the Turban: Terror and Gendered Sikh Identity in Liam Delzell's Punjabi Cab, Satdeep Singh's Taaj , and Sarab Singh Neelam's Ocean of Pearls 12. Gendering the Sikh Diaspora and Transnational Feminism: The Construction of Sexuality in the Poems of Sukhjeet Kaur Khalsa (2016), Sharapal Ruprai (2014) and Rupi Kaur (2015 and 2017). Bibliography
Es gelten unsere Allgemeinen Geschäftsbedingungen: www.buecher.de/agb
Impressum
www.buecher.de ist ein Shop der buecher.de GmbH & Co. KG Bürgermeister-Wegele-Str. 12, 86167 Augsburg Amtsgericht Augsburg HRA 13309
