Words of her own : women authors in nineteenth-century Bengal /

By:

Murmu, Maroona [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2020Edition: First editionDescription: xvi, 439 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cmContent type:

text

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Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9780199498000

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DDC classification:

891.4409252 MUR

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Summary: Women's writings have mostly been seen within the context of colonial and indigenous efforts of female emancipation as a part of social reform and growth of nationalist ideology. This book deals with the emergence of middle-class Hindu and Brahmo women authors as an ever-growing distinct category questioning scholarly practise of bolstering the grand framework of omnipotent control of patriarchy, denying women authors the credit of being agents of history. Another distinct aspect is its attempt to examine how women authors varied in their writing style, content and language form within and across genres. Probing essentialist conceptions of women's writings, it contends that there exists no monolithic body of 'women's writings' with a firmly gendered language form, style and content.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	H.T. Parekh Library	SIAS Collection	891.4409252 MUR (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		K3347

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 390-427) and index.

Women's writings have mostly been seen within the context of colonial and indigenous efforts of female emancipation as a part of social reform and growth of nationalist ideology.
This book deals with the emergence of middle-class Hindu and Brahmo women authors as an ever-growing distinct category questioning scholarly practise of bolstering the grand framework of omnipotent control of patriarchy, denying women authors the credit of being agents of history.
Another distinct aspect is its attempt to examine how women authors varied in their writing style, content and language form within and across genres. Probing essentialist conceptions of women's writings, it contends that there exists no monolithic body of 'women's writings' with a firmly gendered language form, style and content.

Also available as an e-book.

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