Shumona Dasgupta
Biographic Data
| ID | 3823610 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shumona Dasgupta |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shumona |
| FAMILY NAME | Dasgupta |
| SIGNATURE | DASGUPTA S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stony Brook University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Remembering the Bengal Partition
I read Jyotirmoyee Devi's 1967 Bengali novel The River Churning as a trauma narrative by focusing on the female protagonist Sutara's experience of a “social death” in the aftermath of an attack on her village. The text is a function of memory, depicting Sutara's failure to remember while serving as a point of entry into how the Partition was collectively re-memoried in the 1960s in Bengal. The novel, in its focus on how the Partition was assimila…
The spectacle of violence in Partition fiction
Fictional texts about the Partition of India (1947) written in the 1960s and 1970s attempt to "write" ethnic conflict in terms of a sexual rivalry over the possession of women by Hindu and Muslim men, with "rape" emerging as the master‐trope. This paper examines how female sexuality and the body become a fetish in the course of the demonizing of Muslim men in two novels by male Hindu authors: Manohar Malgonkar's A Bend in the Ganges (1964) and Ch…
Interrogating the “Fourth Space”
(2003). Interrogating the “Fourth Space”: Reimagining “Nation,” “Culture” and “Community” in South Asian Diasporic Fiction. South Asian Review: Vol. 24, Globalization and Diaspora, pp. 116-129
The spectacle of violence in Partition fiction
Fictional texts about the Partition of India (1947) written in the 1960s and 1970s attempt to "write" ethnic conflict in terms of a sexual rivalry over the possession of women by Hindu and Muslim men, with "rape" emerging as the master‐trope. This paper examines how female sexuality and the body become a fetish in the course of the demonizing of Muslim men in two novels by male Hindu authors: Manohar Malgonkar's A Bend in the Ganges (1964) and Ch…
Remembering the Bengal Partition
I read Jyotirmoyee Devi's 1967 Bengali novel The River Churning as a trauma narrative by focusing on the female protagonist Sutara's experience of a “social death” in the aftermath of an attack on her village. The text is a function of memory, depicting Sutara's failure to remember while serving as a point of entry into how the Partition was collectively re-memoried in the 1960s in Bengal. The novel, in its focus on how the Partition was assimila…
Interrogating the “Fourth Space”
(2003). Interrogating the “Fourth Space”: Reimagining “Nation,” “Culture” and “Community” in South Asian Diasporic Fiction. South Asian Review: Vol. 24, Globalization and Diaspora, pp. 116-129
The spectacle of violence in Partition fiction
Fictional texts about the Partition of India (1947) written in the 1960s and 1970s attempt to "write" ethnic conflict in terms of a sexual rivalry over the possession of women by Hindu and Muslim men, with "rape" emerging as the master‐trope. This paper examines how female sexuality and the body become a fetish in the course of the demonizing of Muslim men in two novels by male Hindu authors: Manohar Malgonkar's A Bend in the Ganges (1964) and Ch…
Remembering the Bengal Partition
I read Jyotirmoyee Devi's 1967 Bengali novel The River Churning as a trauma narrative by focusing on the female protagonist Sutara's experience of a “social death” in the aftermath of an attack on her village. The text is a function of memory, depicting Sutara's failure to remember while serving as a point of entry into how the Partition was collectively re-memoried in the 1960s in Bengal. The novel, in its focus on how the Partition was assimila…
Gender Studies (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · South Asian Cinema and Culture (2 works) · South Asian Studies and Conflicts (2 works)