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This book chronicles travel writings of Bengali women in colonial India and explores the intersections of power, indigeneity and the representations of the ‘self’ and the ‘other’ in these writings. It documents the transgressive histories of these women who stepped out to create emancipatory identities for themselves. The book brings together a selection of travelogues from various Bengali women and their journeys to the West, the Aryavarta and Japan. These writings challenge stereotypes of the ‘circumscribed native woman’ and explore the complex personal and socio-political histories of women in colonial India. Reading these from a feminist, postcolonial perspective, the volume highlights how these women from different castes, classes and ages confront the changing realities of their lives in colonial India in the backdrop of the independence movement and the Second World War. The author draws attention to the personal histories of these women, which informed their views on education, womanhood, marriage, female autonomy, family and politics in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Engaging and insightful, this volume will be of interest to students and researchers of literature

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Author

Jayati Gupta [Gupta, Jayati]

Publisher

Routledge

Published

2020

Language

EN

Category

nonfiction