ABSTRACT This paper undertakes a detailed reading of BVS’ novel Sundarī. Commenting on the as yet uncertain and experimental form of the modernist novel, the essay demonstrates how fiction and history, genealogy and folksong, contribute to the heteroglossia and polysemy of this much read and analyzed book. Through characters like Lakhpat Rai and his own ancestor Kaura Mal, BVS explores the relations between Hindus and Sikhs. Through Sundari, her multiple abductions and escapades, he constructs notions of Muslimness, but also of purity of Sikhness, besides creating a character representing an ideal Sikh woman, invested in her own chastity.

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甜蜜的想象：Bhai Vir Singh的Sundarī中的形式，性别和宗教

摘要本文对BVS的小说Sundarī进行了详细的阅读。这篇文章评论了现代主义小说的尚不确定和实验形式，论证了小说和历史，家谱和民歌如何促进这本广为阅读和分析的书的异质性和多义性。BVS通过Lakhpat Rai和他的祖先Kaura Mal等角色探索了印度教徒与锡克教徒之间的关系。通过桑达里（Sondaari）的多次绑架和出逃，他不仅创造了代表理想锡克教女人的性格，而且投入了自己的贞操，从而建构了穆斯林的概念，同时也表达了锡克教的纯正。