Sara Hakeem Grewal
Biographic Data
| ID | 936651 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sara Hakeem Grewal |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sara Hakeem |
| FAMILY NAME | Grewal |
| SIGNATURE | GREWAL S H |
| AFFILIATIONS | MacEwan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9711-4236 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Partition, diaspora, and translation in rap versions of “Toba Tek Singh”
Surveilling the Poetic Body
By returning to key moments in lyric’s development, including the work of William Jones, John Stuart Mill, and the New Critics, this essay argues for the centrality of the contexts of British colonialism in India for the development of the lyric genre through translations and interpretations of the ghazal form. Tracing the scholarly genealogy of the abstraction of poetry into an “organic unity” that relies on a bifurcation of the poem into form (…
The World in Words
Born in villages, roaming the world’
This paper shows that various songs by Sikh Canadian rap artist Fateh represent engagements with essentialist discourses that neatly mirror Bibi Bakare-Yusuf's notion of “diasporicity”: the continual re-inscription of the origin in acts of embodied agency that retain their connection to tradition while also negotiating the body's social meanings that exist outside of the subject's self-positioning. I would also like to thank Fateh for his support…
Testimony and the Urdu Troposphere in Manto’s ‘Khol Do’
While scholars of Partition frequently reference witnessing as a necessary frame for understanding Partition literature, and particularly the work of Saadat Hasan Manto, I analyse Manto’s short story ‘Khol Do’ (‘Open It’) to argue that the text’s use of Urdu-inflected tropology both deploys and exceeds the discourse of testimony. Through its turn toward magical realism in its devastating ending, ‘Khol Do’ demonstrates both the futility of attempt…
Intra- and Interlingual Translation in Blackamerican Muslim Hip Hop
This article examines three main aspects of translation in the hip hop of Blackamerican Muslim hip-hop artists Mos Def and Lupe Fiasco: first, translation between Hip Hop Nation Language (HHNL) and a high register of White Mainstream English (WME) termed "academic English"; second, translation between HHNL and WME more broadly; and third, translation between HHNL and Arabic. These artists' approach to translation provides an alternative to the he…
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Intra- and Interlingual Translation in Blackamerican Muslim Hip Hop
This article examines three main aspects of translation in the hip hop of Blackamerican Muslim hip-hop artists Mos Def and Lupe Fiasco: first, translation between Hip Hop Nation Language (HHNL) and a high register of White Mainstream English (WME) termed "academic English"; second, translation between HHNL and WME more broadly; and third, translation between HHNL and Arabic. These artists' approach to translation provides an alternative to the he…
Testimony and the Urdu Troposphere in Manto’s ‘Khol Do’
While scholars of Partition frequently reference witnessing as a necessary frame for understanding Partition literature, and particularly the work of Saadat Hasan Manto, I analyse Manto’s short story ‘Khol Do’ (‘Open It’) to argue that the text’s use of Urdu-inflected tropology both deploys and exceeds the discourse of testimony. Through its turn toward magical realism in its devastating ending, ‘Khol Do’ demonstrates both the futility of attempt…
Born in villages, roaming the world’
This paper shows that various songs by Sikh Canadian rap artist Fateh represent engagements with essentialist discourses that neatly mirror Bibi Bakare-Yusuf's notion of “diasporicity”: the continual re-inscription of the origin in acts of embodied agency that retain their connection to tradition while also negotiating the body's social meanings that exist outside of the subject's self-positioning. I would also like to thank Fateh for his support…
The World in Words
Partition, diaspora, and translation in rap versions of “Toba Tek Singh”
Surveilling the Poetic Body
By returning to key moments in lyric’s development, including the work of William Jones, John Stuart Mill, and the New Critics, this essay argues for the centrality of the contexts of British colonialism in India for the development of the lyric genre through translations and interpretations of the ghazal form. Tracing the scholarly genealogy of the abstraction of poetry into an “organic unity” that relies on a bifurcation of the poem into form (…
Sociology (3 works) · South Asian Studies and Diaspora (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · History (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Linguistics (2 works) · Mathematics (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Political science (2 works)