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Women and Literary Narratives in Colonial India - Her Myriad Gaze on the 'Other' (Hardcover)
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Women and Literary Narratives in Colonial India - Her Myriad Gaze on the 'Other' (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in South Asian History
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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
in Colonial India. Based on literary and historical analysis, it
focuses on four different genres of literary writing where
nineteenth-century Bengali women writers look back at the British
colonizers. In the process, the European culture becomes a static
point of reference, and the chapters in the book show the
ideological, social, cultural, political, and deeper, emotional
interactions between the colonized and the colonizer. The book also
addresses the lack of sufficient primary sources authored by
Bengali women on their European counterparts by anthologizing
different available genres. Taking into account literary narratives
from the colonized and the less represented side of the divide,
such as a travelogue, fantasy fiction, missionary text and journal
articles, the book represents the varying opinions and perspectives
vis-a-vis the European women. Using an interdisciplinary approach
charting the fields of Indology, colonial studies, sociology,
literature/literary historiography, South-Asian feminism, and
cultural studies, this book makes an important contribution to the
field of South Asian Studies, studies of empire, and to Indian
women's literary history.
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