ABSTRACT

In this essay, Jaspreet Singh's novel Helium is read as a historical text alongside government reports of the pogroms, media reports of the event, and oral ethnographies of survivors of 1984. Helium offers an understanding of how the memory archive challenges continued impunity of perpetrators of state violence. Impunity is embedded in the state's judicial processes, in a lack of public accountability, in forgetting, and in repetition. The survivors present a profound challenge to impunity by their refusal to accept the logic of badla or revenge.

中文翻译：

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“事件、记忆、隐喻”：1984 年印度的反锡克教大屠杀

摘要

在这篇文章中，贾斯普雷特·辛格 (Jaspreet Singh) 的小说Helium与政府对大屠杀的报道、媒体对该事件的报道以及 1984 年幸存者的口头民族志一起作为历史文本被阅读。Helium 提供了一种理解，即记忆档案如何挑战肇事者的持续逍遥法外。国家暴力。有罪不罚现象植根于国家的司法程序、缺乏公共问责制、遗忘和重复。幸存者拒绝接受badla或报复的逻辑，从而对有罪不罚现象提出了深刻挑战。