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Mimic writing: On Rammowalia’s fictional narrative of Air India Plane tragedy.
- Source :
- Sikh Formations: Religion, Culture, Theory; September 2017, Vol. 13 Issue 3, p193-206, 14p
- Publication Year :
- 2017
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Abstract
- This paper presents a reading of Iqbal Rammowalia’s novelWhat the Judges Wouldn’t See?[2005]. It is a fictional narrative of post-1984 events in a Canadian Sikh household, which, readers are invited to believe, bears closely upon the crashing of Air India plane in June 1985. The plot devised by Rammowalia turns out to be a caricature of gross distortion. Its tall claim of portraying a realistic scenario of a conspiracy is unconvincing – knowing Canada’s two national security agencies could not substantiate such a contention. As it stands, Rammowalia’s creative work only lends its weight to a shelf-load of prejudiced writings concerning the Canadian Sikhs. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
- Subjects :
- SIKHS
NATIONAL security
AIRCRAFT accidents
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 17448727
- Volume :
- 13
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Sikh Formations: Religion, Culture, Theory
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 125479311
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/17448727.2017.1351222