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Wandering Women: Travel Wrings in Bengali Periodicals, 1900-1940
Hardcover
Travel WritingFiction Anthologies
ISBN13: 9789356876941
Publisher: Primus Books
Published: Dec 27 2023
Pages: 466
Weight: 1.93
Height: 1.19 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
Wandering Women presents sixteen travelogues that were originally published in Bengali periodicals (samayik patrikas) like Bamabodhini Patrika, Antahpur, and Mahila, among others, narrating the places these Bengali women visited and the people they met while highlighting nationalist and universalist values.
Unlike conventional Western women's narratives, these travel narratives by colonized women are unique since they reiterate, confront, and subvert inherited colonial stereotypes in their encounters with the West; however, in their travels to the East they themselves become colonial in their analyses. Women's travel narratives are hugely important for assessing the position of women and their intellectual development within societal growth in late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in India. Publication in vernacular periodicals empowered both writer and reader, creating a world for, by, and of women.
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