Women and Literary Narratives in Colonial India: Her Myriad Gaze on the 'other'

ISBN-13: 9781138597464 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 138 str.

Sukla Chatterjee

Opis

This book explores the idea of gazing through literature in Colonial India. Based on literary and historical analysis, it focuses on four different genres of literary writing where nineteenth century Bengali women writers look back at the British colonizers.

Spis treści

1. Introduction 2. Bilet as a spectacle: Krishnabhabini das’ Imòlanòdòe Baṅgamahilā and observations of the female spectator 3. Fantasies of the ‘other’ in Toru Dutt’s novels 4. Kardoo the Hindoo Girl and impersonation of the heathen ‘other’ 5. Gazing for philanthropic inspiration: the concept of sebā in nineteenth-century Bengali periodicals 6. Summing Up

O autorze

Sukla Chatterjee is an Instructor at the University of Heidelberg and the University of Bonn, Germany.