Understanding the Displacement of Pandits from Kashmir Valley: Dialogism in The Garden of Solitude
Mikhael Bakhtin has fundamentally changed ourunderstanding of the novel form by shifting emphasis frommonologism and freeing the novel author's/narrator's visioncontrolled narrative to dialogism where multiple voices arepossible and there is a recognition of more than one validunderstandin...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2017
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| In: |
Journal of Dharma
Year: 2017, Volume: 42, Issue: 1, Pages: 29-46 |
| Further subjects: | B
Pandits
B Kashmir B Narrative B Migration B Fundamentalism B Bakhtin |
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Volltext (kostenfrei) |
| Summary: | Mikhael Bakhtin has fundamentally changed ourunderstanding of the novel form by shifting emphasis frommonologism and freeing the novel author's/narrator's visioncontrolled narrative to dialogism where multiple voices arepossible and there is a recognition of more than one validunderstanding of the context. Sidhartha Gigoo's novel The Gardenof Solitude functions as a work of art that brings out the true natureof fundamentalism, which is characterised by a total lack ofopenness to the voices of the other side. This paper reads into themultiple voices in the novel and constructs a criticalunderstanding of the displacement of Pandit's from Kashmir. Itargues that the insurgency of the 1990s in Kashmir, which was aresult of aspiration for a separate political identity for Kashmirwas turned into a 'Jihad' against the non-Muslims.Fundamentalism hijacked the age-old plurality of the Kashmiriculture and the casualties were the Pandits and the Sufi form ofIslam that was practiced in the Valley. The paper makes a caseagainst fundamentalism that forced Pandits to leave their homesbut could not break the emotional bond amongst the Muslims andthe Pandits of Kashmir, and presents dialogue as an antidote. |
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| ISSN: | 0253-7222 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of Dharma
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