Family, school and nation : the child and literary constructions in 20th-century Bengal /

This seminal work examines the concurrence of childhood rebellion and conformity in Bengali literary texts (including adult texts), a pertinent yet unexplored area, making it a first of its kind. It is a study of the voice of child protagonists across children's and adult literature in Bengali...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Sen, Nivedita (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Delhi ; New York, NY : Rolutledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2015.
Subjects:
Bengali literature > History and criticism.
Children in literature.
Littérature bengali > Histoire et critique.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Asian > Indic.
Bengali literature
Children in literature
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; 1 Western approaches to childhood: An overview; 2 Literary and nonliterary representations of the child in nineteenth-century Bengal: A Background; 3 The twentieth-century child versus the home and family; 4 Growing resentments: The school and the education system; 5 Escapes: Real and fantastic; 6 Encounters with the world beyond: Responding to the nation in crisis; 7 The rebel child and the conformist resolution; Glossary; Select bibliography; Index.

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