1st Edition
The 1984 Anti-Sikh Violence Narration and Trauma in Language and Literature
Acknowledgements vi Introduction 1 1 Hair, Hurt, and Humiliation: Othering the Sikh Body 24 2 Been There, Seen That: Sensory Witnessing 47 3 Siapa and Shivers: Somatic Expressions 70 4 Stor(y)ing Rape: To Speak or Not to Speak 93 5 Children of the Carnage: Intergenerational Trauma 115 Conclusion 133 Bibliography 140 Index 147
Biography
Ritika Singh’s research focuses on the crosstalk between trauma, memory, and literary theory. More specifically, she is engaged in analysing the voicing of wounds. Her contributions to the field have been recognized through publications with academic publishers such as Cambridge Scholars, John Benjamins, and the University of Calabria. She is currently teaching literature as assistant professor at the Department of English, Sri Venkateswara College, Delhi University, where she specializes in teaching courses on partition literature, literary theory, women’s writing, and postcolonialism. She has a PhD from Jawaharlal Nehru University, India.
