'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 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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Autor principal: Joel Kuortti
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Publicado: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://doaj.org/article/3e12b4345f784a12a36067d7d618c189
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Sumario: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?