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The refugee woman : partition of Bengal, gender, and the political

Chakraborty, Paulomi, author

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'The Refugee Woman' explores the Partition of Bengal in 1947, in its relationship to gender, by innovatively engaging with the cultural imagination of the displaced refugee woman in West Bengal. This book reads the above figure critically in order to trace the shifting meanings of 'woman' in Bengal in the middle decades of the 20th century. Paulomi Chakraborty closely examines three significant Partition texts from West Bengal, Ritwik Ghatak's Meghe Dhaka Tara, Jyotirmoyee Devi's Epar Ganga, Opar Ganga, and Sabitri Roy's Swaralipi, situating them against a broad and densely sketched context in conversation with cultural debates and contemporary feminist scholarship, to trace a radical potential in the figuration of the refugee woman.

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Subject: Jyotirmaẏī Debī, 1894-1988. / Rāẏa, Sābitrī, 1918-1985. / Ghatak, Ritwikkumar, 1925-1976. / Women India Bengal Social conditions 20th century. / Women refugees India Bengal History 20th century. / Refugees in literature. / Refugees in motion pictures. / Bengali literature 20th century History and criticism. / Bengal (India) History. / India History Partition, 1947.
• ISBN: 9780199475032, 0199475032

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
HV640.4.I4 C493 2018	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE