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Words of Her Own by Maroona Murmu, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

From Maroona Murmu

Current price: $44.76
Words of Her Own by Maroona Murmu, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters
Words of Her Own by Maroona Murmu, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

Indigo

Words of Her Own by Maroona Murmu, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

From Maroona Murmu

Current price: $44.76
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Words of Her 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 genres-such as autobiographies, novels, and, travelogues-this book examines the socio-cultural incentivesthat enabled the dawn of middle-class Hindu and Brahmo 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 women's writings being a monolithic body of works that display a firmly gendered form and content, by offering rich insights into the complex world of women's subjectivities in colonial Bengal. Inattempting 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 bookcontends that there were women authors who flouted the norms of literary aesthetics and tastes set by male literati, thereby creating a literary tradition of their own in Bangla and becoming agents of history at the turn of the century. | Words of Her Own by Maroona Murmu, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

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