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Trauma and the Sikh Imaginary in Contemporary Global Culture (PAMLA)

San Francicso
Organization: PAMLA
Event: PAMLA
Categories: Postcolonial, American, Hispanic & Latino, Interdisciplinary, British, Genre & Form, Popular Culture, World Literatures, African-American, Colonial, Revolution & Early National, Transcendentalists, 1865-1914, 20th & 21st Century, Medieval, Early Modern & Renaissance, Long 18th Century, Romantics, Victorian, 20th & 21st Century, Adventure & Travel Writing, Children's Literature, Comics & Graphic Novels, Drama, Narratology, Poetry, Aesthetics, Anthropology/Sociology, Classical Studies, Cultural Studies, Environmental Studies, Film, TV, & Media, Food Studies, History, Philosophy, African & African Diasporas, Asian & Asian Diasporas, Australian Literature, Canadian Literature, Caribbean & Caribbean Diasporas, Indian Subcontinent, Eastern European, Mediterranean, Middle East, Native American, Scandinavian, Pacific Literature
Event Date: 2025-11-20 to 2025-11-23 Abstract Due: 2025-05-15

Please consider submitting a proposal for the (guaranteed) session of PAMLA below. The conference is being held in San Francisco on November 20-23 this year. Details are at https://www.pamla.org/pamla2025/ and the CFP and abstract submission link is at https://pamla.ballastacademic.com/Home/CFP.

19497. Trauma and the Sikh Imaginary in Contemporary Global Culture (Panel / In-Person)
Palimpsests: Memory and Oblivion / Colonial and Postcolonial Studies
Presiding Officer: Harveen Mann (Loyola University Chicago)
This session will analyze Sikh precarity and resistance in selected fiction, poetry, photography, film, documentaries, and popular cultural texts in English as well as Punjabi and Hindi (in English translation). Focusing on three critical moments in modern and contemporary Sikh history—the Partition of India and Pakistan in 1947; the Sikh pogroms of 1984 following the assassination of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi by her Sikh bodyguards; and the hate crimes against Sikh Americans in the aftermath of 9/11 as well as in contemporary times, we will trace the challenges of the Sikh imaginary to an oppressive Hindu nationalism in India and a white supremacist (re)imagining of the nation in USA.

hmann@luc.edu

Harveen Mann