The Refugee Woman: Partition of Bengal, Women, and the Everyday of the Nation

In this dissertation I analyze the figure of the East-Bengali refugee woman in Indian literature on the Partition of Bengal of 1947. I read the figure as one who makes visible, and thus opens up for critique, the conditions that constitute the category women in the discursive terrain of post-Partiti...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Chakraborty, Paulomi
Other Authors: Slemon, Stephen (English and Film Studies)
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: 2009
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10048/851