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

Autor Paulomi Chakraborty
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 29 noi 2018
The Refugee Woman explores the Partition of Bengal in 1947, in its relationship to gender, by innovatively engaging with the cultural imagination of the displaced refugee woman in West Bengal. This work reads the above figure critically in order to trace the shifting meanings of 'woman' in Bengal in the middle decades of the twentieth century. Paulomi Chakraborty closely examines three significant Partition texts from West Bengal, Ritwik Ghatak's Meghe Dhaka Tara, Jyotirmoyee Devi's Epar Ganga, Opar Ganga, and Sabitri Roy's Swaralipi, situating them against a broad and densely sketched context in conversation with cultural debates and contemporary feminist scholarship, to trace a radical potential in the figuration of the refugee woman. She argues that this figure, animated by the history of the political left and refugee movements and shaped by powerful cultural narratives, can contest and reconstitute the very political imagination of 'woman' that has been shaped by the long history of dominant cultural nationalism. The Refugee Woman makes an important contribution to the scholarship on gender and the Partition by attending to the less examined case of Bengal. Its detailed account also elucidates the nationalist, communal, and Communist gender politics of a key period in post-Independence Bengal.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780199475032
ISBN-10: 0199475032
Pagini: 320
Ilustrații: NA
Dimensiuni: 149 x 220 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.47 kg
Editura: OUP OXFORD
Colecția OUP Oxford
Locul publicării:Oxford

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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.

Notă biografică

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.