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Dwelling in the archive : women writing house, home, and history in late colonial India /

Through an analysis of the writings of three 20th century Indian women, this book explores how the memoirs, fictions, and histories written by women can be read as counter-narratives of colonial modernity.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Burton, Antoinette M., 1961- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Memory Becomes Her: Women, Feminist History, and the Archive
  • 2. House, Daughter, Nation: Interiority, Architecture, and Historical Imagination in Janaki Majumdar's "Family History"
  • 3. Tourism in the Archives: Colonial Modernity and the Zenana in Cornelia Sorabji's Memoirs
  • 4. A Girlhood among Ghosts: House, Home, and History in Attia Hosain's Sunlight on a Broken Column.