Words of Her Own
Women Authors in Nineteenth-Century Bengal
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9780199498000
Publication date:
18/11/2019
Hardback
456 pages
216x140mm
Price: 1395.00 INR
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ISBN:
9780199498000
Publication date:
18/11/2019
Hardback
456 pages
Maroona Murmu
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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Maroona Murmu
Description
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 incentives that 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. In attempting 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 book contends 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.
About the Author
Author Dr Maroona Murmu, Associate Professor, Department of History, Jadavpur University, Kolkata
Maroona Murmu teaches in the Department of History, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India. She earned her doctorate from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, in 2012. Her research primarily focuses on women's writing in nineteenth-century Bengal.
Maroona Murmu
Table of contents
Contents
List of Tables and Figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Women in the Archives: Situating Women's Writings
2. Domesticity: Her Subjectivity and Subjection
3. Personal Narratives: The 'Cultural Other' Scripts Her-Story
4. Novels: The Novelties and the Realties of her Life
5. Travel Writings: Her Travails and Negotiations
6. Concluding Note: Reception of her Creative Self
Bibliography
Appendices
Glossary
Index
About the Author
Maroona Murmu
Review
"It is a carefully researched book with extensive citations that will be of interest to scholars of Indian women's writing and literary history more broadly." - Tara Puri, University of Bristol, Tulsa Studies in Womens Literature,"This book is a notable achievement,...the book as a whole constitute a valuable historical and literary resource both for scholars of women's writing and for the wider field of scholarship on colonial Bengal." - Dr John Waś, Assistant Editor, Modern Language Review,"Maroona Murmu has given us an excellent, thoughtful, and meticulously researched study that should be required reading for all historians and literary scholars working on nineteenth-century Indian cultural history." - Supriya Chaudhuri, Jadavpur University, Modern Philology
Maroona Murmu
Description
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 incentives that 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. In attempting 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 book contends 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.
About the Author
Author Dr Maroona Murmu, Associate Professor, Department of History, Jadavpur University, Kolkata
Maroona Murmu teaches in the Department of History, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India. She earned her doctorate from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, in 2012. Her research primarily focuses on women's writing in nineteenth-century Bengal.
Table of contents
Contents
List of Tables and Figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Women in the Archives: Situating Women's Writings
2. Domesticity: Her Subjectivity and Subjection
3. Personal Narratives: The 'Cultural Other' Scripts Her-Story
4. Novels: The Novelties and the Realties of her Life
5. Travel Writings: Her Travails and Negotiations
6. Concluding Note: Reception of her Creative Self
Bibliography
Appendices
Glossary
Index
About the Author
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