1st Edition
The Bengal Famine and Cultural Production Signifying Colonial Trauma
Introduction; Chapter One: The Long Famine in The Bengal Tragedy and Famine and Rehabilitation in Bengal; Chapter Two: Emotion and Resistance in T.G. Narayan’s Famine Over Bengal; Chapter Three: Love as a Decolonial Framework in Freda Bedi’s Bengal Lamenting; Chapter Four: Trauma and Referentiality in Bhabani Bhattacharya’s Famine Novels; Chapter Five: Opacity and Witnessing in Ela Sen’s and Zainul Abedin’s Darkening Days; Chapter Six: The Recognition of Suffering in Chittaprosad’s Hungry Bengal; Chapter Seven: Activism and Restraint in the Famine Photography of Sunil Janah; Chapter Eight: "Innumerable Wounds": The Marked Bodies of Somnath Hore; Epilogue: Continuities
Biography
Babli Sinha is Associate Professor of English and Director of Media Studies at Kalamazoo College, USA. She is the author of Cinema, Transnationalism, and Colonial India: Entertaining the Raj (2013) and editor of South Asian Transnationalisms: Cultural Exchange in the Twentieth Century (2012), also published by Routledge.
