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Sabbatical Leave Proposal And Report, Umeeta Sadarangani

Sabbaticals

Specific Goals of the Proposed Sabbatical Leave

• To continue transcribing interviews with Sindhis in India about their experience of life in Sind before, during, and immediately after the 1947 Partition.
• To identify patterns among the interviews and written narratives. To follow up on interviews and to interview some of those who have submitted written narratives. T
• To read intensively about the Partition, Sind, and Sindhi culture, and to read about creative non-fiction writing, especially memoir writing.
• To write a work of creative nonfiction about what I learn, with the goal of sharing it with my students in classes and eventually …