'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
Formato:	article
Lenguaje:	EN ES
Publicado:	Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona 2014
Materias:	Salman Rushdie; Shauna Singh Baldwin; Jallianwala Bagh massacre; colonial politics; narrative strategies; representation General Works A
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:3e12b4345f784a12a36067d7d618c1892021-12-02T04:18:46Z'One Thousand, Six Hundred and Fifty Rounds': Colonial Violence in the Representations of the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre 2339-85232339-8523https://doaj.org/article/3e12b4345f784a12a36067d7d618c1892014-04-01T00:00:00Zhttp://revistes.uab.cat/indialogs/article/view/v1-kuortti/pdfhttps://doaj.org/toc/2339-8523https://doaj.org/toc/2339-8523The 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?Joel KuorttiUniversitat Autònoma de BarcelonaarticleSalman Rushdie; Shauna Singh Baldwin; Jallianwala Bagh massacre; colonial politics; narrative strategies; representationGeneral WorksAENESIndialogs: Spanish Journal of India Studies, Vol 1, Pp 38-50 (2014)
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topic	Salman Rushdie; Shauna Singh Baldwin; Jallianwala Bagh massacre; colonial politics; narrative strategies; representation General Works A
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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?
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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
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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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