Swapna M Banerjee

Fathers in a Motherland

Imagining Fatherhood in Colonial India

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Produktbeschreibung

This monograph breaks new ground by weaving stories of fathers and children into the history of gender, family, and nation in colonial India. Arguing that fatherhood assumed new meaning and significance in the changing colonial culture, Banerjee documents the different ways the authority and power of the father was invoked and constituted both metaphorically and in everyday experiences. Traversing familial and public domains, the book interrogates connections between fatherhood and a new conception of masculinity.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 211mm x 150mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9789391050245
• ISBN-10: 9391050247
• Artikelnr.: 67462672

Autorenporträt

Swapna M. Banerjee is Professor of History, Brooklyn College and The Graduate Center of the City University of New York

Inhaltsangabe

* Preface and Acknowledgements
* 1. The Familial and the Familiar: In Search of Fathers and Children
in Indian History
* 2. "Fathers" at the Crossroads: Literary Activism and Fatherhood in
Nineteenth-Century Bengal
* 3. Fathers in a Motherland: Children as Social Imaginaries in the
Scientific Literature of Nineteenth-Century Bengal
* 4. Imagining Fatherhood: Representations of Fathers in
Autobiographical Literature of Colonial Bengal
* 5. Rabindranath Tagore: The Father and the Educator
* 6. Beyond Bengal-Gandhi and Nehru: Fathers at Home and Fathers of the
Nation
* Conclusion
* Selected Bibliography
* Index