44 – Narratives of Women, Violence and Memory in South Asia

October 2, 2025
2:00 pm
H07
We invite papers on the under-researched narratives of violence against women in literature, cinema/TV, online and social media in regional languages of South Asia. We intend to identify, analyse, and theorise on these texts that narrate or respond to violence against women in the post-2000 period.

Convenors

Monika Browarczyk
Balwant Kaur

Presentations

Narrating Marital Rape in Web Series: Social and Cultural Internalisation of Violence
Sarkar Pritha - XIM University, XIM University, Bhubaneshwar, India
Epistemic violence, women, and Hindi public sphere: An exploratory survey of editorial practices in Hindi literary periodical Ālocnā
puri maria - independent researcher, independent researcher, New Delhi, India, India
Depicting Gendered Violence in the War of 1971: A Critical Analysis of Khalid F. Muhammad’s Urdu Novel Khaleej (2008)
Mohsin Adnan - South Asia Institute, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany
Feminist Imaginations of Revenge and Redemption in Pashto Cinema
Masood Syeda Momina - University of Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, United States
Remembrances of Wounds: Narratives of Violence in Kusum Ansal’s Tapasi
Kumar Archana - Department of English, Bananas Hindu University, Varanasi, India
Evolving Narratives: Public Spaces and Sexual Violence in Hindi Stories
Kaur Balwant - Miranda House, University of Delhi, Delhi, India
Verma Vibhas Chandra - Deshbandhu College, University of Delhi, Delhi, India
Narratives of Violence against Women in Dalit Literary Public Spheres of Hindi. A Case Study of “Dalit Sāhitya (Vārṣikī)” and “Hā̃s”
Browarczyk Monika - Institute of Oriental Studies, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland
The Images of Women in Garhwali Folk Literature
Bhatt Ram Prasad - Dept. of Culture and History of India and Tibet, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany