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Record Nr.

UNISA996248027703316

Autore

Burton Antoinette M. <1961->

Titolo

Dwelling in the archive [[electronic resource] ] : women writing house, home, and history in late colonial India / / Antoinette Burton

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, 2003

ISBN

1-280-70395-4

0-19-514424-4

9786610703951

0-19-534934-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (217 p.)

Disciplina

820.9/355

Soggetti

Indic prose literature (English) - Women authors - History and criticism

Women and literature - India - History - 20th century

Women - India - Biography - History and criticism

Families - India - Historiography

Women - India - Historiography

Autobiography - Women authors

Families in literature

Home in literature

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [145]-197) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; 1. Memory Becomes Her: Women, Feminist History, and the Archive; 2. House, Daughter, Nation: Interiority, Architecture, and Historical Imagination in Janaki Majumdar's ""Family History""; 3. Tourism in the Archives: Colonial Modernity and the Zenana in Cornelia Sorabji's Memoirs; 4. A Girlhood among Ghosts: House, Home, and History in Attia Hosain's Sunlight on a Broken Column; Epilogue: Archive Fever and the Panopticon of History; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Sommario/riassunto

Dwelling in the Archives uses the writing of three 20th century Indian women to interrogate the status of the traditional archive, reading their memoirs, fictions, and histories as counter-narratives of colonial



modernity. Janaki Majumdar was the daughter of the first president of the Indian National Congress. Her unpublished ""Family History"" (1935) stages the story of her parents' transnational marriage as a series of homes the family inhabited in Britain and India -- thereby providing a heretofore unavailable narrative of the domestic face of 19th century Indian nationalism. Cornelia Sorab