Dwelling in the archive : women writing house, home, and history in late colonial India / Antoinette Burton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Burton, Antoinette M., 1961-

Series:

ACLS Fellows' publications.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Majumdar, Janaki Agnes Penelope, 1886-1963. Family history.

Majumdar, Janaki Agnes Penelope.

Hosain, Attia, 1913-1998. Sunlight on a broken column.

Hosain, Attia.

Sorabji, Cornelia. India calling.

Sorabji, Cornelia.

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

Indic prose literature (English).

Women and literature--India--History--20th century.

Women and literature.

Women--India--Biography--History and criticism.

Women.

Families--India--Historiography.

Families.

Women--India--Historiography.

Autobiography--Women authors.

Autobiography.

Families in literature.

Home in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (217 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 Her unpublished ""Family History"" (1935) stages the story of her parents' transnational marriage as a series of homes the family inhabited in Britain and India -- thereby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

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

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

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-280-70395-4

0-19-514424-4

9786610703951

0-19-534934-2

OCLC:

476260072

Publisher Number:

2027/heb04611 hdl