Sidhwa, Bapsi
About Bapsi Sidhwa
Biography (University of Minnesota)
Reviews
Couto, Maria. "In Divided Times." TLS, no. 4435, 1988
Hashmi, Alamgir. "The Bride." World Literature Today, vol. 58, no. 4, 1984
Hashmi, Alamgir. "The Crow Eaters by Bapsi Sidhwa." WLWE, vol. 20, no. 2, 1981
Interviews
Montenegro, David. "Bapsi Sidhwa: An Interview." Massachusetts Review, vol. 31, no. 4, 1990
Criticism
Morton, Stephen. "Postcolonial Refugees, Displacement, Dispossession and Economies of Abandonment in the Capitalist World System." The Bloomsbury Introduction to Postcolonial Writing, Ramone (ed.), 2018
Rajiva, Jay. Postcolonial Parabola, 2017
Rind, Ume Kulsoom, et al. "Unveiling Women Power: A Feminist Study of Bapsi Sidhwa's Ice Candy Man." International Research Journal of Art & Humanities, vol. 45, no. 45, 2017
Khan, Sobia. "Transnational Feminism in Sidhwa's Cracking India." Emerging South Asian Women Writers, Jussawalla and Weagel (eds.), 2016
Dora-Laskey, Prathim-Maya. "Bodies as Borderwork: From Cartographic Distance to Cosmopolitan Concern in Bapsi Sidhwa's Ice Candy Man and Amitav Ghosh's The Shadow Lines." South Asian Review, vol. 36, no. 3, 2015
Chambers, Claire. "'The Heart, Stomach and Backbone of Pakistan': Lahore in Novels by Bapsi Sidhwa and Mohsin Hamid." South Asian Diaspora, vol. 6, no. 2, 2014
Ahmad, Iesar. "English Language and Postcolonial Burden." Journal of Social Sciences & Humanities, vol. 19, no. 1, 2011
Mercanti, Stefano. "Displacing Androcracy: Cosmopolitan Partnerships in Bapsi Sidhwa's Water." Cosmopolitan Civil Societies, vol. 3, no. 3, 2011
Mirza, Maryam. "Female Relationships across Class Boundaries." Sri Lanka Journal of the Humanities, vol. 36, no. 1/2, 2010
Victor, Divya. "Another('s) Way of Knowing: Memory, Testimony, and Subjectivity in Bapsi Sidhwa's Defend Yourself against Me." Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies, vol. 16, no. 1, 2009
Singh, Rashna B. "Traversing Diacritical Space." Journal of Commonwealth Literature, vol. 43, no. 2, 2008
Pestonji, Meher. "Troubled Times Test the Writer." Journal of Postcolonial Writing, vol. 43, no. 2, 2007
Godiwala, Dimple. "Kali: Providing a Forum for British-Asian Women Playwrights." Studies in Theatre & Performance, vol. 26, no. 1, 2006
Kapadia, Novy. "Partition and the Parsi Novel." Creative Forum, vol. 18, no. 1, 2005
Kain, Geoffry. "Rupture as Continuity: Migrant Identity and 'Unsettled' Perspective in Bapsi Sidhwa's An American Brat." Asian American Literature in the International Context, Davis and Ludwig (eds.), 2002
Bharat, Meenakshi. "Gender and Beyond." World Literature Written in English, vol. 37, no. 1-2, 1998
Bharucha, Nilufer E. "From behind a Fine Veil." Indian Literature, vol. 39, no. 5, 1996
Allen, Diane S. "Reading the Body Politic in Bapsi Sidhwa's Novels: The Crow Eaters, Ice Candy Man and An American Brat." South Asian Review, vol. 18, no. 15, 1994
Mann, Harveen Sachdev. "Cracking India: Minority Women Writers and the Contentious Margins of Indian Nationalist Discourse." Journal of Commonwealth Literature, vol. 29, no. 2, 1994
Works
Novels
Ice-Candy Man (2016)
The Pakistan Bride (2008)
City of Sin and Splendour (2006)
Water (2006)
An American Brat (1993)
Cracking India (1991)
The Crow Eaters (1982)
Essays/Articles/Non-Ficton/Short Stories
"Sense of the City: Lahore." BBC, 2003
"A Puff of Air." Weber, vol. 15, no. 1, 1998
Adaptations
Deb, Paromita. "'Cracking' Nations/Notions." The Child in World Cinema, 2018
Neutill, Rani. "Bending Bodies, Borders and Desires in Bapsi Sidhwa's Cracking India and Deepa Mehta's Earth." South Asian Popular Culture, vol. 8, no. 1, 2010
Bent, Eliza. "Keeping the Faith." American Theatre, vol. 24, no. 3, 2007
Whitehead, Andrew. "1947 Earth: Story as History." South Asian Cinema, no. 5-6, 2004
Sidhwa, Bapsi. "Watching My Novel Become Her Film." The New York Times, vol. 148, no. 51636, 1999
Audio and Audiovisual Material
Bapsi Sidhwa Interview. Vimeo, 2011
Bapsi Sidhwa Interview. YouTube, 12 Nov. 2009
Bapsi Sidhwa in Conversation with Dr. Amineh Hoti of Cambridge University. YouTube, 28 Feb. 2009