1st Edition
Women and Literary Narratives in Colonial India Her Myriad Gaze on the ‘Other’
By Sukla Chatterjee
Copyright 2019
144 Pages
by
Routledge
144 Pages
by
Routledge
144 Pages
by
Routledge
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In the colonial context of South Asia, there is a glaring asymmetry in the written records of the interaction between the Bengali women and their European counterparts, which is indicative of the larger and the overall asymmetry of discursive power, including the flow and access to information between the colonizers and their subjects. This book explores the idea of gazing through literature... Read more
1. Introduction 2. Bilet as a spectacle: Krishnabhabini das’ Imòlanòdòe Baṅgamahilā and observations of the female spectator 3. Fantasies of the ‘other’ in Toru Dutt’s novels 4. Kardoo the Hindoo Girl and impersonation of the heathen ‘other’ 5. Gazing for philanthropic inspiration: the concept of sebā in nineteenth-century Bengali periodicals 6. Summing Up
Biography
Sukla Chatterjee is an Instructor at the University of Heidelberg and the University of Bonn, Germany.
