Radical Re-tellings of Hir
Gender and the Politics of Voice in Postcolonial Punjabi Poetry
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| ID | 2634871 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Sara Kazmi (0000-0002-9379-6874, University of Cambridge, autor correspondente) |
| Ano | 2019 |
| Data de publicação | 2019-05-20 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sim |
| Open Access | Sim |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Periódico | South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores do periódico | ISSN: 1960-6060 • E-ISSN: 1960-6060 |
| Editora | OpenEdition (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.4000/samaj.5294 |
| OpenAlex | W2947060488 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Referências citadas | 20 |
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 these progressive poets deployed the contestatory genre of Hir to critique the multiple patriarchies of nation, region and community. Their radical re-working of Hir’s voice attempts to de-center male authorial privilege in the Punjabi literary formation, constituting the regional vernacular as a potent site for engaging with tradition under modernity. Together, their poems offer a historiographical and literary reconstruction of cultural identity to locate women as active subjects and narrators of history
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