Browsing by Author "Bansal, Tania"

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    Critical Discourse in Punjabi
    (Taylor and Francis, 2023-08-29T00:00:00) Nayar, Rana; Saini, Alpna; Bansal, Tania
    This volume forms a part of the Critical Discourses in South Asia series which deals with schools, movements and discursive practices in major South Asian languages. It offers crucial insights into the making of the Punjabi language and literature, and its critical tradition across a century. The book brings together English translation of major writings of influential figures dealing with literary criticism and theory, aesthetic and performative traditions and re-interpretations of primary concepts and categories in Punjabi. It presents 30 key texts in literary and cultural studies from Punjab from the beginning of development of Punjabi language to its present form, with most of them translated for the first time into English. These seminal essays cover interconnections with socio-historical events in the medieval, colonial and post-independence period in Punjab. They discuss themes such as spiritual and aesthetic visions, poetic and literary forms, modernism, progressivism, feminism, Dalit literature, power structures and social struggles, ideological values, cultural renovations and humanism. Comprehensive and authoritative, this volume offers an overview of the history of critical thought in Punjabi literature in South Asia. It will be essential for scholars and researchers of Punjabi language and literature, literary criticism, literary theory, comparative literature, Indian literature, cultural studies, art and aesthetics, performance studies, history, sociology, regional studies and South Asian studies. It will also interest the Punjabi-speaking diaspora and those working on the intellectual history of Punjab and conservation of languages and culture. � 2023 selection and editorial matter, Rana Nayar, Alpna Saini and Tania Bansal; individual chapters, the contributors; individual translations, the translators. � 2023 selection and editorial matter, Rana Nayar, Alpna Saini and Tania Bansa.
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    Negotiations between History and Fiction: New Historicist Readings of Shauna Singh Baldwin’s What the Body Remembers and Anita Rau Badami’s Can You Hear the Nightbird Call?
    (Central University of Punjab, 2018) Bansal, Tania; Saini, Alpna
    This thesis is an attempt to negotiate between history and fiction with regard to new historicist readings of Shauna Singh Baldwin’s What the Body Remembers and Anita Rau Badami’s Can You Hear the Nightbird Call? It delves, into four historical incidents namely Komagata Maru (1914), Partition of India (1947), Operation Blue Star (1984), and Air India Flight 182 Bombing (1985), through a parallel study of nonfiction and fiction as these form the background subject of the novels taken for study. All these issues, as referred to in the twentieth century, highlight Sikh community with regards to colonialism and diasporic ethnic group politics in the concerned period. An analysis has been done to show the hardships suffered by women at the altar of patriarchy and the turbulences suffered by the Sikh community in general under the said four incidents. Racist incidents have also been included. These incidents as shown by the authors have gone a long way in fiction to negotiate with history. The theory of new historicism has been used with regard to an analysis of power paradigms contributing in re-fashioning the identity of characters in the said novels through varied discourses floating in the society in the chapters of the thesis.