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

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

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The Jallianwala Bagh massacre in Amritsar in 1919 paved the way for the independence of India and Pakistan. The paper looks at the narrative strategies of representing the incident in two novels that recount it, Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children and Shauna Singh Baldwin’s What the Body Remembers....

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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:http://revistes.uab.cat/indialogs/article/view/v1-kuortti/pdf
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spelling doaj-3e12b4345f784a12a36067d7d618c1892020-11-25T00:56:36ZengUniversitat Autònoma de BarcelonaIndialogs: Spanish Journal of India Studies 2339-85232339-85232014-04-0113850'One Thousand, Six Hundred and Fifty Rounds': Colonial Violence in the Representations of the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre Joel Kuortti0University of TurkuThe Jallianwala Bagh massacre in Amritsar in 1919 paved the way for the independence of India and Pakistan. The paper looks at the narrative strategies of representing the incident in two novels that recount it, 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?http://revistes.uab.cat/indialogs/article/view/v1-kuortti/pdfSalman Rushdie; Shauna Singh Baldwin; Jallianwala Bagh massacre; colonial politics; narrative strategies; representation
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'One Thousand, Six Hundred and Fifty Rounds': Colonial Violence in the Representations of the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre
Indialogs: Spanish Journal of India Studies
Salman Rushdie; Shauna Singh Baldwin; Jallianwala Bagh massacre; colonial politics; narrative strategies; representation
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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
title_full 'One Thousand, Six Hundred and Fifty Rounds': Colonial Violence in the Representations of the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre
title_fullStr 'One Thousand, Six Hundred and Fifty Rounds': Colonial Violence in the Representations of the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre
title_full_unstemmed 'One Thousand, Six Hundred and Fifty Rounds': Colonial Violence in the Representations of the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre
title_sort 'one thousand, six hundred and fifty rounds': colonial violence in the representations of the jallianwala bagh massacre
publisher Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
series Indialogs: Spanish Journal of India Studies
issn 2339-8523
2339-8523
publishDate 2014-04-01
description The Jallianwala Bagh massacre in Amritsar in 1919 paved the way for the independence of India and Pakistan. The paper looks at the narrative strategies of representing the incident in two novels that recount it, 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?
topic Salman Rushdie; Shauna Singh Baldwin; Jallianwala Bagh massacre; colonial politics; narrative strategies; representation
url http://revistes.uab.cat/indialogs/article/view/v1-kuortti/pdf
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