Gebundenes Buch

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

Selected Writings of Sibaji Bandyopadhyay

Herausgeber: Sen, Nivedita

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge India
• Seitenzahl: 182
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Oktober 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 443g
• ISBN-13: 9781032398990
• ISBN-10: 103239899X
• Artikelnr.: 70899721