Words of Her Own: Women Authors in Nineteenth-Century Bengal

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own situates the experiences and articulations of emergent women writers in nineteenth-century Bengal through an exploration of works authored by them. Based on a spectrum of genressuch as autobiographies, novels and travelogues book examines the sociocultural incentives that enabled the dawn of middle-class Hindu and Brahma women authors at that time. Murmu explores the intersections of Class, caste, gender, language and religion in these works. Reading these texts within a specific milieu, Murmu sets out to rectify the essentialist conception of womens writings being a monolithic body of works that displays a firmly gendered form and content, by offering rich insights into the complex world of subjectivities of women in colonial Bengal. In attempting to do so, this book opens up the possibility of reconfiguring mainstream history by questioning the scholarly conceptualization of patriarchy being omnipotent enough to shape the intricacies of gender relations, resulting in the flattening of self-fashioning by women writers. The book contends that there were women authors who flout the norms of literary aesthetics and tastes set by male literati, thereby creating a literary tradition of their own in Bangle and becoming agents of history at the turn of the century.

• • Book Type/Genre :

Textbooks & Study Guides

• • Book Binding :

Hardcover

• • Language :

English

• • Number of Pages :

Page count varies on each edition/reprint

• • ISBN - 10 :

• • Words of Her Own: Women Authors in Nineteenth-Century Bengal Published On :

2020

• • Resource:

Textbooks & Study Guides, Higher Education Textbooks Book is recommended for Students, Teachers, Graduates, Professionals, and all bibliophiles

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