The Refugee Woman
Partition of Bengal, Gender, and the Political
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9780199475032
Publication date:
20/08/2018
Hardback
314 pages
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ISBN:
9780199475032
Publication date:
20/08/2018
Hardback
314 pages
Paulomi Chakraborty
The Refugee Woman examines the Partition of 1947 by engaging with the cultural imagination of the ‘refugee woman’ in West Bengal, particularly in three significant texts of the Partition of Bengal—Ritwik Ghatak’s film Meghe Dhaka Tara; and two novels, Jyotirmoyee Devi’s Epar Ganga, Opar Ganga and Sabitri Roy’s Swaralipi. It shows that the figure of the refugee woman, animated by the history of the political left and refugee movements, and shaped by powerful cultural narratives, can contest and reconstitute the very political imagination of ‘woman’ that emerged through the long history of dominant cultural nationalisms. The reading it offers elucidates some of the complexities of nationalist, communal, and communist gender-politics of a key period in post-independence Bengal.
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Paulomi Chakraborty
Description
The Refugee Woman examines the Partition of 1947 by engaging with the cultural imagination of the ‘refugee woman’ in West Bengal, particularly in three significant texts of the Partition of Bengal—Ritwik Ghatak’s film Meghe Dhaka Tara; and two novels, Jyotirmoyee Devi’s Epar Ganga, Opar Ganga and Sabitri Roy’s Swaralipi. It shows that the figure of the refugee woman, animated by the history of the political left and refugee movements, and shaped by powerful cultural narratives, can contest and reconstitute the very political imagination of ‘woman’ that emerged through the long history of dominant cultural nationalisms. The reading it offers elucidates some of the complexities of nationalist, communal, and communist gender-politics of a key period in post-independence Bengal.
About the Author
Paulomi Chakraborty is a faculty member at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India.
Paulomi Chakraborty
Table of contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction: The Refugee Woman from East Bengal
1. The Problematic: ‘Woman’ as a Metaphor for the Nation
2. Violence of the Metaphor: Jyotirmoyee Devi’s Epar Ganga, Opar Ganga (The River Churning)
3. A Critique of Metaphor-Making: Ritwik Ghatak’s Meghe Dhaka Tara (Cloud-Capped Star)
4. Beyond the Metaphor: Woman as Political Subject, Women in Collectives in Sabitri Roy’s Swaralipi (The Notations)
Conclusion: Reading beyond the Refugee Woman from East Bengal
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
Paulomi Chakraborty
Paulomi Chakraborty
Description
The Refugee Woman examines the Partition of 1947 by engaging with the cultural imagination of the ‘refugee woman’ in West Bengal, particularly in three significant texts of the Partition of Bengal—Ritwik Ghatak’s film Meghe Dhaka Tara; and two novels, Jyotirmoyee Devi’s Epar Ganga, Opar Ganga and Sabitri Roy’s Swaralipi. It shows that the figure of the refugee woman, animated by the history of the political left and refugee movements, and shaped by powerful cultural narratives, can contest and reconstitute the very political imagination of ‘woman’ that emerged through the long history of dominant cultural nationalisms. The reading it offers elucidates some of the complexities of nationalist, communal, and communist gender-politics of a key period in post-independence Bengal.
About the Author
Paulomi Chakraborty is a faculty member at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India.
Table of contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction: The Refugee Woman from East Bengal
1. The Problematic: ‘Woman’ as a Metaphor for the Nation
2. Violence of the Metaphor: Jyotirmoyee Devi’s Epar Ganga, Opar Ganga (The River Churning)
3. A Critique of Metaphor-Making: Ritwik Ghatak’s Meghe Dhaka Tara (Cloud-Capped Star)
4. Beyond the Metaphor: Woman as Political Subject, Women in Collectives in Sabitri Roy’s Swaralipi (The Notations)
Conclusion: Reading beyond the Refugee Woman from East Bengal
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
