'One Thousand Six Hundred and Fifty Rounds’: Colonial Violence in the Representations of the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre

The Jallianwala Bagh massacre in Amritsar in 1919 paved way for the independence of India and Pakistan. The paper looks at the narrative strategies of representing the incident in Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children and Shauna Singh Baldwin’s What the Body Remembers. How do these texts engage with...

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Main Author:	Joel Kuortti
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona 2014-04-01
Series:	Indialogs: Spanish Journal of India Studies
Subjects:	salman rushdie shauna singh baldwin jallianwala bagh massacre colonial politics narrative strategies representation
Online Access:	https://revistes.uab.cat/indialogs/article/view/3

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spelling	doaj-194eb7ed51d9445faf1edcaf6f38b7bf2021-05-04T16:08:09ZengUniversitat Autònoma de BarcelonaIndialogs: Spanish Journal of India Studies 2339-85232014-04-0110385010.5565/rev/indialogs.33'One Thousand Six Hundred and Fifty Rounds’: Colonial Violence in the Representations of the Jallianwala Bagh MassacreJoel Kuortti0University of TurkuThe Jallianwala Bagh massacre in Amritsar in 1919 paved way for the independence of India and Pakistan. The paper looks at the narrative strategies of representing the incident in Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children and Shauna Singh Baldwin’s What the Body Remembers. How do these texts engage with the colonial political situation? How do the two writers see the repercussions of the incident for the time of their narratives?https://revistes.uab.cat/indialogs/article/view/3salman rushdieshauna singh baldwinjallianwala bagh massacrecolonial politicsnarrative strategiesrepresentation
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title	'One Thousand Six Hundred and Fifty Rounds’: Colonial Violence in the Representations of the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre
title_short	'One Thousand Six Hundred and Fifty Rounds’: Colonial Violence in the Representations of the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre
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description	The Jallianwala Bagh massacre in Amritsar in 1919 paved way for the independence of India and Pakistan. The paper looks at the narrative strategies of representing the incident in Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children and Shauna Singh Baldwin’s What the Body Remembers. How do these texts engage with the colonial political situation? How do the two writers see the repercussions of the incident for the time of their narratives?
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'One Thousand Six Hundred and Fifty Rounds’: Colonial Violence in the Representations of the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre

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