SexViolHist Bib: Representations: Literature: Bapsi Sidhwa

»Bapsi Sidhwa (Urdu: بیپسی سدھوا; 11 August 1938 – 25 December 2024) was a Pakistani novelist who wrote in English and was resident in the United States.« (Extract from: Wikipedia)

Ice Candy Man / Cracking India

I n f o r m a t i o n

»Cracking India (1991, U.S., 1992, India; originally published as Ice Candy Man, 1988, England) is a novel by author Bapsi Sidhwa.
This novel is generally referred to as a story about the Partition of India – hence the title – but its original title was "Ice-Candy-Man," which allows for a broader interpretation of the story. The plot involves Lenny, a 4-year-old Parsee girl who recounts her childhood memories after she is struck by polio in her infancy. She spends most of her time with her ayah Shanta, an 18-year-old Hindu girl from Amritsar.« (Extract from: Wikipedia)

K e y w o r d s

I. Chronological Index: Modern History: 20^th Century

II. Geographical Index: Asian History: Indian History, Pakistani History

III: Topical Index: Cases: Real Incidents: Partition of India | Types: General: Rape

B i b l i o g r a p h y

I. Author Index

[Info] Choudhry, Monika, et al. »Violence Against Women In Four Seminal Narratives During The Partition Of India.« International Refereed Journal of Reviews and Research 13 (2025): 27-37.

[Info] Hai, Ambreen. »Border work, border trouble. Postcolonial feminism and the Ayah in Bapsi Sidhwa’s Cracking India.« Modern fiction studies 46 (2000): 379-426.

[Info] Kabir, Ananya J. »Double Violation? (Not) Talking about Sexual Violence in Contemporary South Asia.« Feminism, Literature and Rape Narratives: Violence and Violation. Edited by Sorcha Gunne et al. New York 2010: 146-163.

[Info] Khalil, Muhammad Z., et al. »Sidhwa’s Feministic Thought in Ice-Candy-Man: A Feministic Study in the Light of Religion and Social Laws.« Studies in Literature and Language 14 (2017): 26-29.

[Info] Navarro-Tejero, Antonia. »Sacks of Mutilated Breasts: Violence and Body Politics in South Asian Partition Literature.« Journal of International Women's Studies 20 (2019): 44-50.

[Info] Shrivastava, Nidhi. »The Limits of #MeToo in India: Rereading Bapsi Sidhwa's Cracking India and Deepa Mehta's Earth.« #MeToo and Literary Studies: Reading, Writing, and Teaching about Sexual Violence and Rape Culture. New York 2021: 175-196.

[Info] Stokes, Katherine M. Sexual Violence and the Authority to Speak: The Representation of Rape in Three Contemporary Novels. M.A. Thesis, McGill University, 2008.

II. Speaker Index

[Info] Narayan, Gaura S. »Ayah Unhomed: Sexual Subjugation and Silence in Bapsi Sidhwa’s Cracking India.« 2014 MLA Annual Convention. Chicago 2014.

The Pakistani Bride

I n f o r m a t i o n

K e y w o r d s

I. Chronological Index: Modern History: 20^th Century

II. Geographical Index: Asian History: Pakistani History

III: Topical Index: Types: General: Rape

B i b l i o g r a p h y

I. Author Index

[Info] Chaudary, Fariha. Hiding and Seeking Identity. The Female Figure in the Novels of Pakistani Female Writers in English: A Feminist Approach. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Huddersfield, 2013.

[Info] Mishra, Lata. »Gender, Culture and Nation in Bapsi Sidhwa's The Pakistani Bride.« International Journal on Multicultural Literature 6 (2016): 43-48.

II. Speaker Index