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.
Temas:
Majumdar, Janaki Agnes Penelope, > 1886-1963. > Family history.
Hosain, Attia, > 1913-1998. > Sunlight on a broken column.
Sorabji, Cornelia. > India calling.
Sunlight on a broken column (Hosain, Attia)
1900-1999
Indic prose literature (English) > Women authors > History and criticism.
Women and literature > India > History > 20th century.
Women > India > Biography > History and criticism.
Families > India > Historiography.
Women > India > Historiography.
Autobiography > Women authors.
Families in literature.
Home in literature.
Femmes et littérature > Inde > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Femmes > Inde > Biographies > Histoire et critique.
Familles > Inde > Historiographie.
Femmes > Inde > Historiographie.
Écrits de femmes autobiographiques.
Familles dans la littérature.
Foyer dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Autobiography > Women authors
Families > Historiography
Families in literature
Home in literature
Women
Women and literature
Women > Historiography
India
Electronic books.
Biographies
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Biographies.
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.

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