Paulomi Chakraborty

Gebundenes Buch

The Refugee Woman

Partition of Bengal, Gender, and the Political

Beschreibung

The Refugee Woman explores the Partition of Bengal in 1947, with a focus on gender, by innovatively engaging with the cultural imagination of 'the refugee woman from East Bengal.' It 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, to trace a radicalpotential in the figuration of the refugee woman. The book makes an important contribution to the scholarship on the Partition by attending to the less examined case of Bengal.

Autor

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Januar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 221mm x 150mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9780199475032
• ISBN-10: 0199475032
• Artikelnr.: 50846393