The Refugee Woman: Partition of Bengal, Gender, and the Political

ISBN-13: 9780199475032 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 320 str.

Paulomi Chakraborty

Recenzje

Paulomi Chakraborty's book is a rich tapestry of prose... The Refugee Woman: Partition of Bengal, Gender, and the Political inspires further investigation of the argument that woman, as a figure, can reqrite her gendered script.

O autorze

Paulomi Chakraborty is Assistant Professor of English in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences in IIT Bombay. She completed her PhD from University of Alberta, Canada. Her publications include a research article in English Studies in Canada (2004), a book chapter in Partitioned Lives: Narratives of Home, Displacement, and Resettlement, edited by Anjali Gera Roy and Nandi Bhatia (New Delhi: Pearson Longman, 2007), and book reviews in Canadian Literature: A Quarterly of Criticism and Review and Economic and Political Weekly. She has, by invitation, also contributed book chapters to Handbook on Gender in South Asia, edited by Leela Fernandez, and Being Bengali: At Home and in the World, edited by Mridula Chakraborty (both Routledge UK, 2014). Among her research interests are the Partition of 1947, the 'turbulent 40s' in Bengal, and cultures of the political left, often focusing on gender.