Remembering Air India: The Art of Public Mourning de Sherene Razack

Remembering Air India: The Art of Public Mourning

Contribuţii de Sherene Razack, Rene Sarojini Saklikar, Maya Seshia, Karen Sharma, Padma Viswanathan Editat de Chandrima Chakraborty, Amber Dean, Angela Failler Contribuţii de Cassel Busse, Rita Kaur Dhamoon, Teresa Hubel, Suvir Kaul, Elan Marchinko, Uma Parameswaran

en Limba Engleză Paperback – 6 iun 2017

On June 23, 1985, the bombing of Air India Flight 182 killed 329 people, most of them Canadians. Today this pivotal event in Canada's history is hazily remembered, yet certain interests have shaped how the tragedy is woven into public memory, and even exploited to advance a strategic national narrative. Remembering Air India insists that we "remember Air India otherwise." This collection investigates the Air India bombing and its implications for current debates about racism, terrorism, and citizenship. Drawing together academic analysis, testimony, visual arts, and creative writing, this innovative volume tenders a new public record of the bombing, one that shows how important creative responses are for deepening our understanding of the event and its aftermath. Contributions by: Cassel Busse, Chandrima Chakraborty, Amber Dean, Rita Kaur Dhamoon, Angela Failler, Teresa Hubel, Suvir Kaul, Elan Marchinko, Eisha Marjara, Bharati Mukherjee, Lata Pada, Uma Parameswaran, Sherene H. Razack, Rene Sarojini Saklikar, Maya Seshia, Karen Sharma, Deon Venter, Padma Viswanathan

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781772122596
ISBN-10: 1772122599
Pagini: 360
Dimensiuni: 152 x 228 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.52 kg
Editura: University of Alberta Press
Colecția University of Alberta Press (CA)

Recenzii

"[Remembering Air India] is an important book. It explores, through a number of essays, poems and excerpts from the public record, a question that should haunt us all still: why has this terrible disaster been relegated to the very margins of public memory?... The focus of this book is not just on a failure of surveillance, policing, intelligence or the court system. Its theme is a wider, and painful, reality: the failure to embrace the Air India bombing and its aftermath as our own.... -- Bob Rae, Literary Review of Canada, June 2017
"When 329 people, mostly Canadians, perished at sea in the 1985 Air India bombing, there was ... no mass public mourning. The only memorial was in County Cork, Ireland, near the spot where Flight 182 took whole families to their death. Few Canadians recall the year this mass murder occurred. The victims were modest people of ordinary means and little public profile. Would it have been different if 329 bankers died, or 329 tennis players? Of course. Would it have been different if 329 white Christians died? Remembering Air India answers this last, jarring question.... Remembering Air India is a poignant postmortem on memory and culture." Holly Doan, Blacklock's Reporter, September 2, 2017

Cuprins

xi Acknowledgements xiii The Art of Public Mourning An Introduction CHANDRIMA CHAKR ABORTY, AMBER DEAN & ANGELA FAILLER Remembering in Relation 3 Remembering in Relation The Air India and Komagata Maru Disasters AMBER DEAN 29 On the Shores of the Irish Sea UMA PARAMESWARAN 33 The Ever After of Ashwin Rao (excerpt) PADMA VISWANATHAN 49 Remembering across Place and Time The Komagata Maru and Air India RITA KAUR DHAMOON A Nation Outside of History 55 From Foreign to Canadian Air India and the Ongoing Denial of Racism MAYA S ESHIA 85 The Impact of Systemic Racism on Canada's Pre-Bombing Threat Assessment and Post-Bombing Response to the Air India Bombings SHERENE H . RAZACK 118 Courtroom 1 from the Flight 182 Series DEON VENTER 119 In the Vestibule of the Nation SHERENE H . RAZACK The Political Apology 127 Politics of (Im)moderation The Production of South Asian Identities in the Canadian Apology for Air India Flight 182 CASSEL BUSSE 153 Statement by the Prime Minister of Canada at the Commemoration Ceremony for the 25th Anniversary of the Air India Flight 182 Atrocity PRIME MINISTER OF CANADA 159 The Canadian Government's Apology to the Victims and Families of Air India Flight 182 KAREN SHARMA Creative Archive 167 Mediating Memories of the 1985 Air India Bombings A Critical Dance with Lata Pada's Revealed by Fire ELAN MARCHINKO 183 Revealed by Fire Artist Statement LATA PADA 187 An Invocation Dance for Lata UMA PARAMESWARAN 189 An Ethics of Remembering Air India 182 and Its Creative Archive TERE SAHUBEL Personal Loss, Collective Grief 195 Model Mourning, Multiculturalism, and the Air India Tragedy CHANDRIMA CHAKRABORTY 221 The Management of Grief BHARATI MUKHERJEE 239 Desperately Seeking Helen Film Synopsis EISHA MARJARA 241 air india, unsent / letters from the archive RENE SAROJINI SAKLIKAR 287 "Courting Aphasia, We Travel" SUVIR KAUL 291 Contributors 297 Index