Shauna Singh Baldwin

Belén Martín-Lucas (Universidade de Vigo)

Ed. by Karis Shearer, University of British Columbia
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.1.2: Canadian Writing and Culture (Anglophone): The Twentieth Century and beyond, 1900-present.
Vol. editors: Sarah Henzi (Simon Fraser University), Kerry Myler (Birmingham Newman University), Glen Nichols (Mount Allison University), Wendy Roy (University of Saskatchewan), Denis Salter (McGill University), Karis Shearer (University of British Columbia)

Dates

Born 1962
Activity 2000-ongoing

Places

Born in Canada
Active in Canada; United States

Activities

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Novelist
Story-writer

Resources

Baldwin's Works

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Shauna Singh Baldwin is a transnational author born in Canada to Sikh parents, raised in India, and now living in the United States. She has stated that she hates purity with a passion and that she loves the hybrid world (Methot 1999: online). Her literary works confirm this statement, as they often depict cross-cultural encounters, presenting travelers, migrants and exiles, individuals who have hybrid cultural identities moving in an increasingly globalized world. She is the author of two short story collections,

English Lessons and Other Stories

(1996) and

We Are Not in Pakistan

(2007), and two novels,

What The Body Remembers

(1999) and

The Tiger Claw

(2004). Her third novel,

The Selector of Souls

, will be published in September 2012. Focusing especially on women’s experiences,…

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Citation: Martín-Lucas, Belén. "Shauna Singh Baldwin". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 18 August 2012 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=12931, accessed 24 November 2024.]