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Anne Murphy

Punjabi literature and the possibility of the secular in India and Pakistan

This talk will explore the complex relationship between the Punjabi language and the state in Pakistan and India, and the troubled nature of both Punjabi’s incorporation into state interests and its marginalization. It does so through a focus on key Punjabi language writers and their positioning in relation to both the literary and the state, and exploration of a notion of the secular that undergirds much modern Punjabi literary work.

Anne Murphy (Ph.D. Columbia) is Associate Professor in the Department of Asian Studies and co-Director of the Centre for India and South Asia Research at the University of British Columbia.