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2023
Bengali Dalit Playwright Namita Das's Play Sishu Dibas o Duti Sishu Edited by Debi Chatterjee Publisher Ekush Satak ISBN: 9788194542797
2018 •
Contemporary theorists in the field of childhood studies have highlighted the functions of children and childhood in cultural productions, emphasising how, rather than being an essentialist idea with an underlying ‘reality,’ childhood is differently constructed within various cultures, historical periods, and political ideologies. Analysing how concepts of childhood operate within literary and cultural productions is significant to an understanding of the specific investments made in children within that particular sociohistorical context. Examples can be drawn from the field of postcolonial writing where the child is often seen functioning as a national allegory or a trope for the postcolonial condition. From a disability studies perspective, the focus on the function of the ‘disabled child’ within literature is even more recent. Recent interdisciplinary research drawing on disability studies and postcolonial literary studies establishes that the nexus between disability and childh...
Journal of Contemporary Drama in English
Gender, Identity and Contemporary India: A View Through Two Plays by Mahesh Dattani2014 •
2011 •
The Bengal Renaissance ushered in the process of multifaceted modernization resulting in the major reshaping of the theatrical space both in terms of convention and praxis. Abandoning the convention of cross-dressing (where the earlier male actors were dressed as women to represent female characters), this new theatrical space began to accommodate the women actors for the representation of female characters. Parallel with the emergence of the "New Woman" in the upper middle class society of the nineteenth century, the women actors also constituted a segregated sphere of the emancipated women. Although "free" to encounter the public sphere, they were denied the degree of social acceptability/status that was otherwise available to the then upper middle class "New Women." This paper tries to locate the experience of a female actor of nineteenth century: Binodini Dasi: as is rendered in her two short autobiographical writings and the re-imagination of that experience in the twentieth century play Tiner Taloar by Utpal Dutt. Dutt uses the historical material to explore the consolidation and redefinition of the feminine space in his contemporary theatre. The Bengal Renaissance ushered in the process of multifaceted modernization resulting in the major reshaping of the theatrical space both in terms of convention and praxis. Abandoning the convention of cross-dressing (whereas the earlier male actors were dressed as women to represent female characters), this new theatrical space began to accommodate the women actors for the representation of female characters. Parallel with the emergence of the "New Woman" in the upper middle class society of the nineteenth century, the women actors also constituted a segregated sphere of the emancipated women. Although "free" to encounter the public sphere, they were denied the degree of social acceptability/status that was otherwise available to the then upper middle class "New Women." This paper tries to locate the experience of a female actor of nineteenth century: Binodini Dasi: as is rendered in her two short autobiographical writings and the re-imagination of that experience in the twentieth century play Tiner Taloar by Utpal Dutt. Dutt uses these two historical materials to explore the consolidation and redefinition of the feminine space in his contemporary theatre. In the first section of our paper Madhumita Roy would try to depict the history, the fact, as inscribed by the actress Binodini herself while in the second section
2015 •
Owing to its colonial tag, Christianity shares an uneasy relationship with literary historiographies of nineteenth-century Bengal: Christianity continues to be treated as a foreign import capable of destabilizing the societal matrix. The upper-caste Christian neophytes, often products of the new western education system, took to Christianity to register socio-political dissent. However, given his/her socio-political location, the Christian convert faced a crisis of entitlement: as a convert they faced immediate ostracization from Hindu conservative society and even as a devout western modernized could not partake in the colonizer’s version of selective Christian brotherhood. I argue that Christian convert literature imaginatively uses Hindu mythology as a master-narrative to partake in both these constituencies. This paper turns to the reception aesthetics of an oft forgotten play by Michael Madhusudan Dutt, the father of modern Bengali poetry, to explore the contentious relationshi...
2022 •
Kamala Das voices her personal experiences of life in her poetry. The energetic and ranging verse of Kamala Das moves through many issues of the world. First and foremost, it charts the world as seen from women's eyes, as wife, lover, mother and daughter, each role constituting different demands and the different perspective around her. Experiencing all the roles, she channels experience and through imagination explains the emotions, relationships, hopes and despair of many other women in India. The present paper focuses on the feministic issues in Das' poetry collections Summer in Calcutta and The Descendants.
2013 •
Freedom and family hardly go together. There is no niche for freedom in Indian families where the male dominated society hold the reins taut, and generally the women readily submit themselves to be ruled over mentally, physically, psychologically, economically and socially merely to 'keep it going'. As a bi-product of the class society, family does exhibit such domination of one individual over the other. This hidden truth hardly surfaces, and families maintain within its core the stinking and manipulative mechanism, well-hidden by the so-called bourgeoisie values and family pride in Indian societies. Adjustment usually by the womenfolk, become the only mantra for the bare survival of the Indian families. This is well depicted in the plays of Mahesh Dattani, a great playwright who has brought out the crux of gender crisis which Indian families face. This paper explains the birth of family, its inner ugliness, and how it barely manages to survive in Indian scenario, and its n...
2013 •
Revista de Ciencias Sociales
Procesamiento cerebral del lenguaje desde la perspectiva de la neurociencia y la psicolingüística2021 •
American Behavioral Scientist
Toward a Posthumanist Ethics of Qualitative Research in a Big Data Era2019 •
2021 •
2015 •
"Lexicon"
La chiesa dei carmelitani scalzi di Messina in un disegno di Filippo Juvarra per il palazzo reale2023 •
Langage et Societe
Introduction usages et effets de documents de l’atrocité2024 •
Militaergeschichtliche Zeitschrift
Frank Palmowski, Die Belagerung von Erfurt 1813/14, Erfurt: Sutton 2015, 153 S., EUR 19,99 [ISBN 978-3-95400-604-5]2016 •
La producción jurídica de la globalización económica. Notas de una pluralidad jurídica transnacional
Prólogo de "La producción jurídica de la globalización económica. Notas de una pluralidad jurídica transnacional"2014 •
Diseño de Baños Públicos - Conceptos y Construcción
Diseño de Baños Públicos - Conceptos y Construcción2015 •
International Journal of Mechanical Sciences
Fluid-structure interaction of mixed convection in a cavity-channel assembly of flexible wall2018 •
Journal of Endocrinology and Metabolism
Evaluation of Risk Factors for Malignancy in Patients With Thyroid Nodules2020 •
Intensive care medicine experimental
ESICM LIVES 2016: part three : Milan, Italy. 1-5 October 20162016 •
2024 •
Zambarado e Bemtevi: bruxarias deleuzeanas entre um Exu e uma pássara
Zambarado e Bemtevi: bruxarias deleuzeanas entre um Exu e uma pássara2024 •
Pratim Das