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Sikh Formations
Religion, Culture, Theory
Volume 18, 2022 - Issue 3-4: Religion, Literature, and the State: Book Colloquia on Jaspreet Singh's Helium and Manav Ratti's The Postsecular Imagination
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Reading Impunity in Aftermaths of State Violence: Book Colloquium on Jaspreet Singh's Helium

Gendered impunity: Complicity and the body as archive in Helium

Sailaja KrishnamurtiGender Studies, Queen's University, Kingston, CanadaCorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 319-324 | Published online: 10 Nov 2022
 
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ABSTRACT

In this short essay I read Jaspreet Singh's Helium through Julietta Singh's concept of the body as archive. It is a book about impunity and failed responsibility, but this is deeply gendered. It is the women in the novel who carry trauma in their bodies.

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