The Girl Child in the Life, Lore and Literature of Bengal

Selected Writings of Sibaji Bandyopadhyay
Herausgeber: Sen, Nivedita

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Produktbeschreibung

Contemporary children's literature in Bangla celebrates irreverent and deviant boys whose subversive doings critique how they are reared, while the girl child is neglected and marginalised. This book-a compilation of translated works of the author, critic and academic, Sibaji Bandyopadhyay-focuses on gender and childhood in Bengal.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 108
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Oktober 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9781032398990
• ISBN-10: 103239899X
• Artikelnr.: 70899721

Autorenporträt

Nivedita Sen taught English literature at Hansraj College, University of Delhi. Among her published books are Family, School and Nation: The Child and Literary Constructions in Twentieth Century Bengal (Routledge, 2015) and a translation of Sibaji Bandyopadhyay's pathbreaking work The Rakhal Gopal Dialectic: Colonialism and Children' Literature in Bengal (2015). She has been translating Bangla fiction from Tagore onwards.

Inhaltsangabe

Author's Biography viii Foreword ix Acknowledgements xvi Author's
Introduction xviii Translator's Note lxii 1 Thakurma'r Jhuli (Grandma's
Sack): A Chronicle of the Past or a Premonition of the Future? 1 2
Abishaswya ek Sangbadal (An Incredible Transition): A chapter from Abar
Shishushiksha (On Children's Education Again) 20 3 Bangla Shishisahityer
Chhoto Meyera: The Little Girls of Bangla Children's Literature 30 Works
Cited 97 Glossary 102 Index 105