Bapsi Sidhwa
Bapsi Sidhwa was a Pakistani and American novelist, writer and screenwriter (1938–2024). She was born at Karachi and died at Houston.
Bapsi Sidhwa in brief
- Born
- 1938
- Died
- 2024
- Known for
- novelist, writer and screenwriter
- Place of birth
- Karachi
Contents
Catalogued works
19 works under this name are catalogued by Wikidata Query Service and Open Library.
Cracking India. Water. The Crow Eaters. The Vintage Book of Indian Writing 1947-1997. La spartizione del cuore. American Brat. La sposa pakistana. Their language of love. Landscapes of Writing. Agua. the pakistani bride. The Bapsi Sidhwa omnibus. City of Sin and Splendour. La fiancée pakistanaise. An American Brat. The bride. Pakistani Bride. Ice Candy Man. Ishim.
Literature
10 scholarly publications naming this subject were located in the registry of record.
Sidhwa, Bapsi, Kindlers Literatur Lexikon (KLL), 2020. Making up with Painful History. The Partition of India in Bapsi Sidhwa's Work: Bapsi Sidhwa interviewed by Isabella Bruschi, The Journal of Commonwealth Literature, 2008. History, culture and identity in the novels of Bapsi Sidhwa, Bharati Mukherjee and Hanif Kureishi. Sidhwa, Bapsi, The Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Studies, 2016. Bapsi Sidhwa, Living in America, 2018. Female Corporeality and the Sublimation of Pain: A Study of The Pakistani Bride by Bapsi Sidhwa, NUML Journal of Critical Inquiry, 2021. Negotiating Conflict: Regional and National Identities in Contemporary Pakistani Fiction in English, University of Chitral Journal of Linguistics and Literature, 2021. Borrowing As A Tool To Fill The Ideological Thoughts: The Role Of Code-Mixing In An American Brat By Bapsi Sidhwa And The Escape By Qaisra Shiraz, University of Chitral Journal of Linguistics and Literature, 2020. Borrowing As A Tool To Fill The Ideological Thoughts: The Role Of Code-Mixing In An American Brat By Bapsi Sidhwa And The Escape By Qaisra Shiraz, University of Chitral Journal of Linguistics and Literature, 2019. ‘Heavy Waters’ of Punjab: A Hydro-critical Analysis of Bapsi Sidhwa’s Ice-Candy Man, NUML Journal of Critical Inquiry, 2024.
Digitised editions and texts
4 digitised items associated with this heading are catalogued by Internet Archive.
Cracking India (1991) — Internet Archive. Cracking India A Novel (1991) — Internet Archive. The crow eaters (1982) — Internet Archive. A MOUSE WITH SEVEN TAILS - ENG - BAPSI SIDHWA, SANJAY SARKAR — Internet Archive.
Scholarly footprint
Bibliographic registers publish measured figures for this heading: 20 language editions of the general reference literature carrying an article (Wikimedia (language editions)). A count of publications is evidence of attention, not of standing, and is given here only as a measure.
Evidence base
This article draws on 4 independent source lineages. Copies and mirrors of the same underlying record were collapsed into a single witness, so 4 means 4 genuinely separate publishers of record. 14 further registers were consulted and returned nothing for this heading.
Chronology
- 1938Bapsi Sidhwa born at Karachi.
- 1982The crow eaters digitised by Internet Archive.
- 1991Cracking India digitised by Internet Archive.
- 1991Cracking India A Novel digitised by Internet Archive.
- 2024Bapsi Sidhwa died at Houston.
Sources
Each source is named with the standing the house places on it, so the evidence can be weighed rather than taken on trust.
- 1.
“Bapsi Sidhwa”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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Wikidata, structured authority record Q2020488: Bapsi Sidhwa
reference work · Reputable secondary · Wikidata
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