Understanding Womens Experiences of Displacement
The South Asian region has been especially prone to mass displacement and relocations owing to its varied geographical settings as well as socio-political factors. This book examines the womens perspective on issues related to displacement, loss, conflict, and rehabilitation.
It maps the diverse engagements with womens experiences of displacement in the South Asian region through a nuanced examination of unexplored literary narratives, life writing and memoirs, cultural discourses, and social practices. The book explores themes like sexuality and the female body, women and the national identity, violence against women in Indian Partition narratives, and stories of exile in real life and fairy tales. It also offers an understanding of the ruptures created by dislocation and exile in memory, identity, and culture by analyzing the spaces occupied by displaced women and their lived experiences. The volume looks at the multiplicity of reasons behind womens displacement and offers a wider perspective on the intersections between gender, migration, and marginalization.
This book will be useful for scholars and researchers of cultural studies, literature, gender studies, conflict studies, development studies, South Asian studies, refugee studies, diaspora studies, and sociology.
Nabanita Sengupta is presently working as an assistant professor in English at Sarsuna College, affiliated to the University of Calcutta, India. Her areas of specialization are 19th-century travel writings, womens studies, and translation studies. She has participated as a translator in the workshops of Sahitya Akademi, Viswa-Bharati, and others. She has also presented papers in various national and international seminars in India and abroad and organized both national and international webinars and seminars for her college. Her recent publication is a translation of a 19th-century Bengali travel writing, Englandey Bangamahila (A Bengali Lady in England) with a critical introduction.
Suranjana Choudhury teaches literature at North Eastern Hill University, Shillong, India. She has published research articles in various national and international journals, as well as book chapters in a number of edited anthologies. She has presented research papers at different national and international conferences in India and abroad. Her areas of interest include Partition Studies, South Asian studies, womens writing, and cultural studies. She is the author of the book A Reading of Violence in Partition Stories from Bengal .
Understanding Womens Experiences of Displacement
Literature, Culture and Society in South Asia
Edited by Nabanita Sengupta and Suranjana Choudhury
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Contents
PART I
CRITICAL ESSAYS
Binayak Dutta
Sibendu Chakraborty
Kaustav Bakshi
Samrat Sengupta
Rima Bhattacharya
B. Rajeshwari
Aparna Singh
Sudeshna Chakravorty
Debasri Basu
Goutam Karmakar
Kusumita Datta
Dolikajyoti Sharma
PART II
LIFE WRITINGS AND MEMOIRS
Amarinder Gill
Nabina Das
Lapdiang Artimai Syiem
Paromita Sengupta
Suvendu Debnath
Subhajit Sengupta
IMAGE
Contributors
Kaustav Bakshi is an Associate Professor, Department of English, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, and a Charles Wallace India Trust Fellow. He has been published in South Asian Review (2012), Postcolonial Text (2015), New Cinemas: Journal of Contemporary Film (2013), South Asian History and Culture (2015/2017) and South Asian Popular Culture (2018). He has published an anthology entitled, Rituparno Ghosh: Cinema, Gender and Art, published by Routledge in 2015 and is working on two projects: the first Queer Studies with Orient BlackSwan; the second, commissioned by Taylor and Francis, is titled Popular Cinema in Bengal: Stardom, Genre, Public Cultures. He has presented papers at several national and international conferences. His other published books include two co-edited anthologies, Anxieties, Influences and After: Critical Responses to Postcolonialism and Neocolonialism (2009) and Studies in Indian English Poetry (2008).
Rima Bhattacharya is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur, India. She received her doctorate degree in 2020 from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur and her M.A. and M.Phil. degrees from the University of Calcutta. She was awarded the Outstanding Thesis Award for her doctoral dissertation. She has published papers in journals like Journal of Mens Studies, Neohelicon, Journal of Language, Literature and Culture, American Notes and Queries (ANQ), South Asian Review, Journal of Commonwealth Literature, International Journal of Comic Art, Economic and Political Review, Indian Journal of Gender Studies, and British and American Studies. Her areas of research interest include Asian American literature, Indian English Poetry, Diasporic Studies, and Postcolonial Literature. She has also attended the prestigious Institute for World Literature program at Harvard University with a scholarship.
Debasri Basu is an Assistant Professor employed with West Bengal Education Service and is currently posted at the Department of English (UG and PG), Maulana Azad College, affiliated to the University of Calcutta, in Kolkata, India. An alumna of St. Xaviers College, Kolkata, she was awarded her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees by the Department of English, University of Calcutta. She professes an avid interest in British Literature of the 18th century, Partition Studies, Resistance Literature, Popular Culture as well as miscellaneous Indian Writings in English, Bengali, Hindi, and English translation. Her research articles have been published by the
