Gender Hauntings at the Border: Qissa’s Narration of Partition Through the Trans Body
BioScope: South Asian Screen Studies
Published online on October 29, 2025
Abstract
BioScope: South Asian Screen Studies, Volume 16, Issue 2, Page 180-200, December 2025.
Qissa: The Tale of a Lonely Ghost(Anup Singh, 2013) narrates the story of the family of Umber Singh, a Sikh patriarch dislocated during the partition of the Indian subcontinent. Possessed by a desire for a son, Umber imposes a regime of masculinity upon ...
Qissa: The Tale of a Lonely Ghost(Anup Singh, 2013) narrates the story of the family of Umber Singh, a Sikh patriarch dislocated during the partition of the Indian subcontinent. Possessed by a desire for a son, Umber imposes a regime of masculinity upon ...