1st Edition
Vanishing Waters Cultural Histories of the Rivers of West Bengal
Acknowledgements Glossary 1. Introduction 2. The Rivers of West Bengal: Spaces and Contexts 3. The Mythical and Mystical Waters: Rivers of West Bengal in Myth, Rituals and Folk Culture 4. Rivers of Life, Rivers of Imagination: Literary Representation of the rivers of West Bengal 5. The ‘lived’ Experience: Communities and Livelihoods related to the rivers of West Bengal 6. Chars: The River Islands 7. Rivers under Threat: Crises, Resistance Movements, the ‘river warriors’ 8. Conclusion
Biography
Arpita Chattaraj (Mukhopadhyay) is Professor in the Department of English and Culture Studies at the University of Burdwan, India. Her areas of interest are Gender Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Environmental Humanities, American Literature, and Culture Studies. Her publications include a critical edition of Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse in the Orient Blackswan Critical Texts series (2021) and Feminisms published by the Orient Blackswan Literary / Cultural Theory series (2016). She has also published a monograph titled Childhood in Toni Morrison’s Fiction.
