Women's Writing in Colombia

Elston, Cherilyn

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-43261-8

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“…I do not even attempt, at this point, to place the post-independence Indian militants like Sandip Kaur on the same plane as the Indian female freedom fighters, engaged in armed struggle against the British, such as Lakshmi Sahgal, Bina Das, Kalpana Dutta or Preetilata Waddedar. 64 There might, however, be a case to be made by viewing Sandip Kaur's writing through the lens provided by the narrative paradigm of testimonio (Elston: 2016). However, in case of Bikhṛā Paĩdā, where the author herself presents the written narrative (without having the authorial function performed by two people, a 'speaker' and a 'listener,' who ultimately writes down the story, cf.…”

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Female, Sikh, Militant…

Puri

2021

CracowIndologicalStudies

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The Indian State has a long history of military interventions at numerous, mostly peripheral locations. Most of the interventions are protracted and may be viewed as virtual civil wars, each side producing and legitimizing its own version of events. This paper will focus on the fallout of the Punjab insurgency (1970–1995), and its decisive point, the Indian army intervention codenamed Operation Bluestar (June 1984), as narrated by a former militant, Sandip Kaur. Her Punjabi book, Bikhṛā Pai͂dā (“Difficult Journey”) (2008), written by somebody who is not a writer, represents a sub-category which “inhabits (…) margins of literary and autobiographical writing” (Butalia 2017: 20). Hence, it offers a unique glimpse into the process of identity construction, both at the personal and the communal level, enacted against the larger backdrop of national games played out on the regional scene and informed by Sikh ‘metacommentary’ (Oberoi 1987: 27).

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Section: Conclusion: Employing a Larger Canvasmentioning

confidence: 99%