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OverviewContemporary children’s literature in Bangla celebrates irreverent, defiant and deviant boys whose subversive doings critique the parenting and schooling they go through, while the girl child is neglected and marginalised. The rare fictional girls who show resilience and demand a normal childhood are consciously silenced, or contained and assimilated within unwritten masculinist norms. This book –a compilation of translated works of the author, critic and academic, Sibaji Bandyopadhyay –focuses on gender and childhood in Bengal. The book includes a translation of his Bangla Shishusahityer Chhoto Meyera (Little Girls in Bangla Children’s Literature), as well as a translated essay on Thakurma’ Jhuli (Grandma’s Sack), a collection of Bangla folk tales and fairytales from early twentieth century that underscores the subaltern role of adolescent female characters with hardly any agency or voice in the oral legends and folklore of Bengal. The translation of the piece ‘An Incredible Transition’ from Bandyopadhyay’s Abar Shishushiksha (On Children’s Education Again) applauds the role of Indian social reformers and British educationists in initiating women’s education in Bengal, while questioning the erasure of protagonists who are girls in the nineteenth-century primers. Interrogating gendered constructions in diverse genres of literature while revisiting the subject of female education, this book will be of interest to students of children’s literature, comparative literature, popular literature, gender studies, translation studies, culture studies and South Asian writings. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Nivedita SenPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge India ISBN: 9781032398990ISBN 10: 103239899 Pages: 108 Publication Date: 21 October 2024 Audience: College/higher education , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Forthcoming Availability: Not yet available  This item is yet to be released. You can pre-order this item and we will dispatch it to you upon its release. Table of ContentsAuthor’s biography. Foreword. Author’s Introduction. Translator’s Note. 1. Thakurmar Jhuli (Grandma’s Sack): A Chronicle of the Past or A Premonition of the Future 2. An Incredible Transition – A Chapter from Abar Shishushiksha (On Children’s Education Again) 3. Bangla Shishusahitye Chhoto Meyera (The Little Girls of Bangla Children’s Literature). Bibliography. Glossary. Index.ReviewsAuthor InformationNivedita Sen taught English literature at Hansraj College, University of Delhi. Among her published books are Family, School and Nation: The Child and Literary Constructions in Twentieth Century Bengal (Routledge, 2015) and a translation of Sibaji Bandyopadhyay’s pathbreaking work The Rakhal Gopal Dialectic: Colonialism and Children’ Literature in Bengal (2015). She has been translating Bangla fiction from Tagore onwards. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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