Raktima Bhuyan, Sanjib Pol Deka

Print Modernity in Colonial Assam

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Produktbeschreibung

With the advent of print in colonial Assam, experimentation with mediums like the prose and novel became more commonplace. This book, in tracing alternative literary trends, acknowledges the simultaneous presence of premodern literary and aural practices which shaped a 'particular' modernity during this period.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 154
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Dezember 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 370g
• ISBN-13: 9781666905410
• ISBN-10: 1666905410
• Artikelnr.: 68887628

Autorenporträt

Raktima Bhuyan is research scholar in the Department of English at Tezpur University in Assam, India. Sanjib Pol Deka is assistant professor in the Department of Assamese at Tezpur University in Assam, India.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: The Coming of Print
Chapter 2: The Curious Case of Sutika Patal: Modernity, Translation and
Women's Health
Chapter 3: Print and the Peasant: Bhimacarita, Storytelling and 19th
Century Agriculture
Chapter 4: Gendered Print(?): Models of the Ideal Feminine, Modernity, and
Women's Organizations
Chapter 5: Textualizing our Modernity: Print, Textbooks, and the Colonial
Child
Conclusion
Bibliography
About the Authors