In her own voice: Sujata Bhatt and the aesthetic articulation of the diasporic condition

Journal of Commonwealth Literature

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 99-119

  Sandten, Cecile ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

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EID: 60950696717     PISSN: 00219894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/002198940003500108     Document Type: Article

References (28)

1. Sujata Bhatt, "From Gujarat to Connecticut to Bremen, ..", Unpublished Manuscript, (1988), p. 4
2. Sujata Bhatt, "From Gujarat to Connecticut to Bremen .. .", p. 4
3. Vinay Dharwadker, "The Poems of Sujata Bhatt Are Such", Arc (1990), p. 79
4. Shirley Geok-lin Lim, "Brunizem", Calyx: A Journal of Art and Literature By Women 12, 3 (1990), p. 93
5. Ranjana Sidhanta Ash, "Sujata Bhatt", PN Review, 7, 21, no. 105, September-October (1995), p. 44
6. Emmanuel S. Nelson, ed., Writers of the Indian Diaspora: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook, Westport CT: Greenwood, 1993, p. xii
7. See Gerard Chaliand and Jean-Pierre Rageau, The Penguin Atlas of Diasporas (Atlas des Diasporas, Editions Odile Jacob, 1991, tr. A.M. Berrett), Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1995, pp. 4-5
8. Emmanuel Nelson, Reworlding: The Literature of the Indian Diaspora, Westport CT: Greenwood, 1992, p. x
9. Nelson, ed. Writers of the Indian Diaspora, p. xi
10. Nelson, Reworlding, p. xi
11. Peter Bohmer, "The Mixed Blessing of Being Bi-Cultural," radio programme about Sujata Bhatt, in Art und Weise: Whittaker's Way - Literature Live, Radio Bremen 2, 22 March (1996)
12. Meena Alexander, born in 1951 in India (where she already moved around a lot), first went to the Sudan with her parents, studied in England (Nottingham), and currently lives in New York. Her central questions are: "How should I spell out these fragments of a broken geography? .. . What could I ever be as a mass of fault lines, a fault mass? .. . That's all I am, a woman cracked by multiple migrations", Meena Alexander, Fault Lines: A Memoir by Meena Alexander, New York: New Feminist Press/City University of New York, 1993, pp. 2-3
13. Stuart Hall, "Cultural Identity and Diaspora", Identity: Community, Culture, Difference, ed. Jonathan Rutherford, London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1990: p. 235
14. Bernd Schulte, Die Dynamik des Interkulturellen in den postkolonialen Literaturen englischer Sprache, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, 1993, p. 74
15. Sujata Bhatt, "The One Who Goes Away", The Stinking Rose, Manchester: Carcanet, 1995: p. 3
16. When asked about the literary influences on her creative writing process, Sujata Bhatt always mentions the Jewish-American poet Eleanor Wilner, a professor at Goucher College, Maryland and her academic supervisor there (interviews on 17 December 1992 and 16 January 1997). The introductory quotation by Eleanor Wilner reminds one strongly of the Jewish idea of "being in the world". "So long as Jews were real Jews, only the body was in exile, not the soul. But when the Jews cast off their spiritual yoke, the body became emancipated and the soul went into exile. Oh, was that an exile - a bitter exile!", Isaac Bashevis Singer, The Penitent, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1983, p. 8
17. Bhatt "The One Who Goes Away", p. 4
18. Bhatt, "From Gujarat to Connecticut to Bremen. ..", p. 1
19. See Edward W Said, Culture and Imperialism, London: Vintage, 1993, pp. 384, 402-3
20. Sujata Bhatt, Brunizem, Manchester: Carcanet, 1988, p. 100
21. Sujata Bhatt, Monkey Shadows, Manchester: Carcanet, 1991, p. 100
22. Bhatt, Monkey Shadows, p. 110
23. See Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths and Helen Tiffin, ed., The Post-Colonial Studies Reader, London & New York: Routledge, 1995: p. 184
24. Jonathan Rutherford, "Interview with Homi Bhabha: The Third Space", Identity: Community, Culture, Difference, ed. Rutherford, London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1990: p. 211
25. Bhatt, The Stinking Rose, p. 76
26. A thorough analysis of this poem can be found in Cecile Sandten, Broken Mirrors: Interkulturalitat am Beispiel der indischen Lyrikerin Sujata Bhatt, Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 1998, pp. 104-110
27. Bhatt, Brunizem, p. 76
28. The Stinking Rose, p. 91