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PublisherBloomsbury Publishing India Pvt. LTD.
ISBN-109356406006
ISBN-139789356406001
eBay Product ID (ePID)16064607415
Product Key Features
Number of Pages186 Pages
Publication NameWomen and the Romance of the Word : 19th Century Contexts in Bengal
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2024
SubjectWomen Authors, Comparative Literature, Asian / Indic
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, Literary Collections
AuthorSreemati Mukherjee
FormatHardcover
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Item Height0.6 in
Item Weight12.5 Oz
Item Length8.8 in
Item Width5.6 in
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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
Table Of ContentAcknowledgements 1. Questions of Gender, Nation, Reform and Writing: 19th-Century Women's Writing in Bengal 2. Autobiography Definitions, Mutations and Transformations 3. Feminism and Polemics: Kailashbasini Devi's 'The Woeful Plight of Hindu Women' (' Hindu Mahilaganer Heenabastha ') 4. Rassundari Dasi's Amar Jiban : Romancing the Self and the Text 5. Travel Writer, Feminist, Sociologist, Patriot: Krishnabhabini Das in Englande Banga Mahila (A Bengali Woman in England) 6. Writing Theatre, the Performing Self and the Nation: Binodini Dasi's Amar Katha 7. The Story Goes On References Index About the Author
SynopsisAround the middle of the 19th century, woman emerges as a new sign disrupting the cultural economy of Bengal and reversing and realigning conventional notions and expectations of woman's agency and power. The colonial interface would have been important because a need for women's overall development was felt amongst the male intelligentsia of the period and some of the key texts that circulated at the beginning of the 19th century were Mary Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), Thomas Paine's Rights of Man (1791), James Mill's History of British India (1817), Richard Carlile's Every Woman's Book (1826) and William Thompson's Appeal of One Half the Human Race, Women, against the Pretensions of the Other Half, Men (1825). The inaugural moment of this outstanding efflorescence of women's writing in polemics, travel writing, autobiography and journal articles could be said to begin with Kailashbasini Devi's Hindu Mahilaganer Heenabastha ( The Woeful Plight of Hindu Women , 1863), in autobiographies like Rassundari Devi's Amar Jiban ( My Life , 1876) and Binodini Dasi's Amar Katha ( My Words , 1913) and in personalised travelogues like Krishnabhabini Das's Englande Banga Mahila ( A Bengali Woman in England , 1885). As Kailashbasini, Rassundari, Krishnabhabini and Binodini write, the romance of the word, the romance of learning and self-realisation is enacted. A new dramatic script emerges as Bengali women become the scriptwriters of their own histories.
