'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...
Main Author: | Joel Kuortti |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
2014-04-01
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Series: | Indialogs: Spanish Journal of India Studies |
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Online Access: | https://revistes.uab.cat/indialogs/article/view/3 |
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