Narrating Cultural Encounter: Representations of India by Select Enlightenment Women Writers

ISBN-13: 9780367714581 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 196 str.

Arnab Chatterjee

Opis

This book interrogates and historicises eighteenth-century British women writers’ responses to India through the novel and travel writing, to bring out the polyvalent space arising out of their complex negotiation with the colonial discourse.

O autorze

Arnab Chatterjee works as an Assistant Professor of English at Harishchandrapur College, Malda. Having completed graduate and post-graduate degrees at Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan, he joined Sabang Sajanikanta Mahavidyalaya, Paschim Medinipur, as a substitute teacher for a term of two years under the UGC Faculty Development Programme. He was awarded a Ph.D by Visva-Bharati University in 2019 for his doctoral dissertation titled "Representation of India in Select British Women Novelists and Travel Writers of the Long Eighteenth Century". Chatterjee’s areas of interest include literatures of the Enlightenment, travel writing, theatre studies and history of ideas.