Being Bengali (eBook, PDF)

At Home and in the World
Redaktion: Chakraborty, Mridula Nath

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Produktbeschreibung

Bengal has long been one of the key centres of civilisation and culture in the Indian subcontinent. However, Bengal identity - "Bengaliness" - is complicated by the fact that Bengal is now divided between India and Bangladesh, and by the fact that there is a very large international diaspora from both parts of Bengal. This book explores a wide range of issues connected with Bengali identity. Amongst other subjects, it considers the special problems arising as a result of the division of Bengal, and concludes by demonstrating that there are many factors which make for a single Bengal identity.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 254
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. März 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317818908
• Artikelnr.: 40824377

Autorenporträt

Mridula Nath Chakraborty is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the Writing and Society Research Centre at the School of Humanities and Communication Arts, the University of Western Sydney, Australia.

Inhaltsangabe

Being Bengali: At Home and in the World: Some Speculations 1. The
University of Dhaka and National Identity Formation in Bangladesh 2. Does
Caste Matter in Bengal? Examining the Myth of Bengali Exceptionalism 3.
Producing and Re-producing the New Woman: A Note on the Prefix 'Re' 4. The
Refugee Woman and the New Woman: (En)gendering Middle-Class Bengali
Modernity and the City in Satyajit Ray's Mahanagar (The Big City 1963) 5.
Re-Visioning the Subject of Intimacy: Rabindranath Tagore and Post-Colonial
Habitations 6. Religion and the Demonic Form of Sacralization: The Case of
Swami Vivekananda 7. In Pursuit of the 'Authentic' Bengali: Impressions and
Observations of a Contested Diaspora 8. Being Bengali Abroad: Identity
Politics among the Bengali Community in Britain 9. Eternal Bengal 10.
Bengal(is) in the House: The Politics of National Culture in Pakistan,
1947-1971