Radical Re-tellings of Hir: Gender and the Politics of Voice in Postcolonial Punjabi Poetry
This paper explores the feminist poetics of postcolonial Punjabi poetry, focusing specifically on Amrita Pritam and Nasreen Anjum Bhatti. Through a close reading of their poems, “Ajj aakhan Waris Shah nu” [“Today I Call on Waris Shah”] and “Nil karaiyan nilkan” [“Blue Cloth Dyed Blue”], I argue that...
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| Language: | English |
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Centre d’Etudes de l’Inde et de l’Asie du Sud
2019-05-01
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| Series: | South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/samaj/5294 |