women writing house, home, and history in late colonial India
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Burton, Antoinette
- Publish Year
- 2003
- Shelfmark
- B4854 - B
- Thesaurus
- kolonialisme, autobiografieën, biografieën, schrijvers, romans, India, 20e eeuw
- Description
- Dwelling in the archive examines how women wrote about the experience of colonialism, partition, and nation-building in memoirs, fictions, and histories. Burton analyses the writings of Janaki Majumdar, daughter of the first president of the Indian National Congress who chronicled her family's transnational history: Cornelia Sorabji, a lawyer who wrote about secluded women in the home: and Attia Hosain, a novelist who wrote about the trauma of partition through a young girl's understandings of her family home. Burton argues for the expansion of what is considered archival material, showing how political events in modern India are closely intertwined with women's experiences of the physical spaces of houses and memories of home.