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DAS GUPTA SANJUKTA
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Autobiografie, biografie e storia.
La narrativa biografica costituisce un’importante documento storico. Essa getta luce sullo spirito sociale e culturale di un’epoca, pur senza rappresentare ‘verità’ oggettive. Il corso si concentra sul Bengala e i testi femminili nell’India coloniale e post-coloniale, e propone una riflessione sul modo in cui il testo biografico può venire utilizzato nella ricostruzione storica.
Recommended readings:
1. David Arnold and Stuart Blackburn, ‘Introduction: life Histories in India’, in David Arnold and Stuart Blackburn ed., Telling Lives in India: Biography, Autobiography and History. Delhi: Permanent Black, 2004, pp. 1-28.
2. Vijaya Ramaswamy, ‘Introduction’, in Vijaya Ramaswamy and Yogesh Sharma ed., Biography as History: Indian Perspectives. New Delhi: Orient Blackswan, 2008.
3. Anshu Malhotra and Siobhan Lambert-Hurley of the Self: Gender, Performance, and Autobiography in South Asia, Introduction
4. Monika Browarczyk, Narrating Lives, Narrating Selves: Women’s Autobiographies in Hindi
5. Robert I. Rotberg, ‘Biography and Historiography: Mutual Evidentiary and Interdisciplinary Considerations’, The Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Vol. 40, No. 3, Biography and History: Inextricably Interwoven (Winter 2010), pp. 305-324
6. Mark Freeman, ‘Telling Stories: Memory and Narrative’.
7. Brian Hatcher , ‘Sanskrit Pandits Recall Their Youth: Two Autobiographies from Nineteenth-century Bengal’, Journal of the American Oriental Society, vol. 121:4, 2001, pp. 580–92.
8. Judith M. Brown, ‘"Life Histories" and the History of Modern South Asia’, The American Historical Review, Vol. 114, No. 3 (Jun., 2009), pp. 587-595
9. Amiya P. Sen, ‘Between History and Hagiography: Vivekananda’s Ramakrishna’, in Vijaya Ramaswamy and Yogesh Sharma ed.,Biography as History: Indian Perspectives. New Delhi: Orient Blackswan, 2008.
10. R.C. Dutt, Three Years in Europe 1868 to 1871
11. Meenakshi Mukherjee, ‘A Voyage to an Unknown Future’ in An Indian for All Seasons: The Many Lives of R.C. Dutt, Penguin Books, 2009.
12. Antoinette Burton, ‘Memory Becomes Her: Women, Feminist History, and the Archive’, in Dwelling in the Archive: Women Writing House, Home, and History in Late Colonial India, Oxford University Press, 2003, pp. 3-31.
13. Jeanne Openshaw, Writing the Self, Delhi, Delhi: OUP, 2010
14. Manoranjan Byapari, Interrogating My Chandal Life: An Autobiography of a Dalit.
15. Baby Haldar, A Life Less Ordinary
16. Swapna Banerjee, ‘Baby Haldar’s A Life Less Ordinary: A Transition from India’s Colonial Past’ in Victoria Haskins and Claire Lowrie ed. Colonisation and Domestic Service: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives, New York and London: Routledge, 2015.
Further Readings:
1. Tapan Raychaudhuri, ‘Transformation of Indian Sensibilities: the West as Catalyst’, in Perceptions, Emotions, Sensibilities: Essays on India’s Colonial and Postcolonial Experiences, Delhi: OUP, 1999.
2. Ashis Nandy, The Intimate Enemy: Loss and Recovery of Self Under Colonialism, Delhi: OUP, 1983
3. Gayatri Chakravarti Spivak, ‘Can the Subaltern Speak?
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