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Remembering Air India: The Art of Public Mourning de Chandrima Chakraborty

Remembering Air India: The Art of Public Mourning

Editat de Chandrima Chakraborty, Amber Dean, Angela Failler
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 7 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, Renée 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 229 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.53 kg
Editura: University of Alberta Press
Colecția University of Alberta Press
Locul publicării:Edmonton, Canada

Comentariile autorului

5 B&W photographs, notes, bibliography, index

Cuprins

AcknowledgementsThe Art of Public Mourning / An Introduction // CHANDRIMA CHAKRABORTY, AMBER DEAN & ANGELA FAILLERRemembering in RelationRemembering in Relation: The Air India and Komagata Maru Disasters // AMBER DEANOn the Shores of the Irish Sea // UMA PARAMESWARANThe Ever After of Ashwin Rao (excerpt) // PADMA VISWANATHANRemembering across Place and Time: The Komagata Maru and Air India // RITA KAUR DHAMOONA Nation Outside of HistoryFrom Foreign to Canadian: Air India and the Ongoing Denial of Racism // MAYA SESHIAThe Impact of Systemic Racism on Canada’s Pre-Bombing Threat Assessment and Post-Bombing Response to the Air India Bombings // SHERENE H . RAZACKCourtroom 1 from the Flight 182 Series // DEON VENTERIn the Vestibule of the Nation // SHERENE H . RAZACKThe Political ApologyPolitics of (Im)moderation: The Production of South Asian Identities in the Canadian Apology for Air India Flight // CASSEL BUSSEStatement by the Prime Minister of Canada at the Commemoration Ceremony for the 25th Anniversary of the Air India Flight 182 Atrocity // PRIME MINISTER OF CANADAThe Canadian Government’s Apology to the Victims and Families of Air India Flight 182 // KAREN SHARMACreative ArchiveMediating Memories of the 1985 Air India Bombings: A Critical Dance with Lata Pada’s Revealed by Fire // ELAN MARCHINKORevealed by Fire: Artist Statement // LATA PADAAn Invocation Dance for Lata // UMA PARAMESWARANAn Ethics of Remembering: Air India 182 and Its Creative Archive // TERE SAHUBELPersonal Loss, Collective GriefModel Mourning, Multiculturalism, and the Air India Tragedy // CHANDRIMA CHAKRABORTYThe Management of Grief // BHARATI MUKHERJEEDesperately Seeking Helen: Film Synopsis // EISHA MARJARAair india, unsent / letters from the archive // RENÉE SAROJINI SAKLIKAR“Courting Aphasia, We Travel” // SUVIR KAULContributorsIndex

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....” [Full review at http://reviewcanada.ca/magazine/2017/06/a-tragedy-of-our-own/]
"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." [Full article at https://www.blacklocks.ca/review-329-hearts/]
"Another standout for its typography, which is pleasing at a glance and impressive on closer inspection. The complex content is demanding, and the solutions are elegant, displaying sensitivity to the subject and cohesiveness while connecting the many structural elements of the page."
"As a testimony to how the cultural landscape of the world is constantly in flux, Remembering Air India shows how no act of terrorism exists in isolation and may have consequences even after decades have passed. [This collection reclaims] an incident that was neglected from public conversation for the longest time."
"Remembering Air India underscores the profound need for acknowledgement, especially after trauma... This acknowledgement, the book suggests, involves open-endedness rather than quick resolution, a commitment to memory as 'difficult return,' and a willingness to see rather than cover up histories of racism."