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British Women Writers and the Asiatic Society of Bengal, 1785-1835 - Re-Orienting Anglo-India (Hardcover, New Ed)
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British Women Writers and the Asiatic Society of Bengal, 1785-1835 - Re-Orienting Anglo-India (Hardcover, New Ed)
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In her study of newly recovered works by British women, Kathryn
Freeman traces the literary relationship between women writers and
the Asiatic Society of Bengal, otherwise known as the Orientalists.
Distinct from their male counterparts of the Romantic period, who
tended to mirror the Orientalist distortions of India, women
writers like Phebe Gibbes, Elizabeth Hamilton, Sydney Owenson,
Mariana Starke, Eliza Fay, Anna Jones, and Maria Jane Jewsbury
interrogated these distortions from the foundation of gender.
Freeman takes a three-pronged approach, arguing first that in spite
of their marked differences, female authors shared a common
resistance to the Orientalists' intellectual genealogy that allowed
them to represent Vedic non-dualism as an alternative subjectivity
to the masculine model of European materialist philosophy. She also
examines the relationship between gender and epistemology, showing
that women's texts not only shift authority to a feminized
subjectivity, but also challenge the recurring Orientalist
denigration of Hindu masculinity as effeminate. Finally, Freeman
contrasts the shared concern about miscegenation between
Orientalists and women writers, contending that the first group
betrays anxiety about intermarriage between East Indian Company men
and indigenous women while the varying portrayals of intermarriage
by women show them poised to dissolve the racial and social
boundaries. Her study invites us to rethink the Romantic paradigm
of canonical writers as replicators of Orientalists' cultural
imperialism in favor of a more complicated stance that accommodates
the differences between male and female authors with respect to
India.
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