Sharmila Purkayastha

Of Captivity and Resistance (eBook, PDF)

Women Political Prisoners in Postcolonial India

• Format: PDF

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. September 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009392754
• Artikelnr.: 70911008

Autorenporträt

Sharmila Purkayastha is Associate Professor in the Department of English at Miranda House, Delhi University. Her primary research interests are examining the relation between literature and social movements and translation of women's prison testimonies of the 1970s from Bengali into English.

Inhaltsangabe

Dedication
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. Introduction: The Captive-Political Dialectic
Chapter 2. Before the Seventies: From the Colonial to the Postcolonial Times
Chapter 3. The Turning Point: Testimonies of Mobilization from Srikakulam and Naxalbari
Chapter 4. In Custody: Repression and Torture
Chapter 5. Behind High Walls: Naxalite Narratives
Chapter 6. Emergency Times: Mass Politics and Detentions
Chapter 7. After the Seventies: Political Imprisonment in India Today
Chapter 8. Conclusion: Solidarity Politics and Poetics
Index.