Susmita Roye
Biographic Data
| ID | 4189737 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Susmita Roye |
| GIVEN NAMES | Susmita |
| FAMILY NAME | Roye |
| SIGNATURE | ROYE S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Delaware State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Mothering India: Women's Fiction in English Shaping Cultural History (1890-1947)
Mothering India concentrates on early Indian women’s fiction, not only evaluating their contribution to the rise of Indian Writing in English (IWE), but also exploring how they reassessed and challenged stereotypes about Indian womanhood, thereby partaking in the larger debate about social reform legislations relating to women’s rights in British India. Early women’s writings are of immense archival significance by virtue of the time period they …
Flora Annie Steel: A Critical Study of an Unconventional Memsahib
Flora Annie Steel (1847–1929) was a contemporary of Rudyard Kipling and rivaled his popularity as a writer during her lifetime, but her legacy faded due to gender-biased politics. She spent 22 years in India, mainly in the Punjab. This collection is the first to focus entirely on this “unconventional memsahib” and her contribution to turn-of-the-century Anglo-Indian literature. The eight essays draw attention to Steel’s multifaceted work—ranging …
Politics of Sculpting the ‘New’ Indian Woman in Premchand’s Stories: Everthing the Mem is Not
This article focuses on two short stories by Munshi Premchand (1880–1936), a stalwart in modern Hindi literature. The aim is to counter the growing amnesia among the general readership about Premchand’s phenomenal contribution to India’s nationalist literature and to challenge the prevailing over-simplistic analysis of his depiction of Indian and Western womanhood. It is widely understood that Premchand, as a traditionalist and nationalist, eulog…
Saint or sinner? Suttee in the depiction of Flora Annie Steel and Cornelia Sorabji
Suttee is a well-discussed and widely researched topic and yet the literary representations of it are not sufficiently probed into. Suttee, if merely understood as the rite of widow burning in India, is one of the cruelest practices of female subjugation. Hence, women’s attempts at articulating their views on such a practice are significant. This becomes more arresting when two women writers come from different (even opposing!) cultures and stand…
Toni Morrison's Disrupted Girls and Their Disturbed Girlhoods: The Bluest Eye and A Mercy
Toni Morrison's Disrupted Girls and Their Disturbed Girlhoods The Bluest Eye and A Mercy Susmita Roye (bio) There were no books about me, I didn't exist in all the literature I had read ... this person, this female, this black did not exist center-self. —Toni Morrison quoted in Jill Matus We never shape the world. . . . The world shapes us. —Toni Morrison, A Mercy It is the urge to find a "person," a "female," a "black" like herself in literature…
Suttee Sainthood through Selflessness: Pain of Repression or Power of Devotion
The immolation of Hindu widows has generated much horror while remaining tenaciously mixed with clandestine admiration. Reported in many eyewitness accounts and literary works, the topic has given rise to highly contested sociocultural, legal and ideological debates, strongly linked to women’s rights. But the root question has not gone away: is suttee/sati just painful female victimisation or can it also reflect powerful female agency and the pow…
Lady Missionary in the Memsahib's Depiction
The “Lady Missionary” is quite a favourite topic for exploring both the theological concern of “Women's work for Religious Cause” as well as the more feminist approach of “Women's work for Women's Cause”. And yet, there is not much work done when it comes to the literary representation of this enterprising woman of the colonial era despite the fact that she is not absent in literature. Missionary women play central or less significant side-roles …
Memsahibs’ Writings: Colonial Narratives on Indian Women
Memsahibs’ Writings: Colonial Narratives on Indian Women Edited by Indrani Sen New Delhi, Orient Longman, 2008 xxix+313 pp., ISBN: 81-250-3314-9 (IRs 650.00 hardback) The Memsahib is perhaps the be
Politics of Sculpting the ‘New’ Indian Woman in Premchand’s Stories: Everthing the Mem is Not
This article focuses on two short stories by Munshi Premchand (1880–1936), a stalwart in modern Hindi literature. The aim is to counter the growing amnesia among the general readership about Premchand’s phenomenal contribution to India’s nationalist literature and to challenge the prevailing over-simplistic analysis of his depiction of Indian and Western womanhood. It is widely understood that Premchand, as a traditionalist and nationalist, eulog…
Toni Morrison's Disrupted Girls and Their Disturbed Girlhoods: The Bluest Eye and A Mercy
Toni Morrison's Disrupted Girls and Their Disturbed Girlhoods The Bluest Eye and A Mercy Susmita Roye (bio) There were no books about me, I didn't exist in all the literature I had read ... this person, this female, this black did not exist center-self. —Toni Morrison quoted in Jill Matus We never shape the world. . . . The world shapes us. —Toni Morrison, A Mercy It is the urge to find a "person," a "female," a "black" like herself in literature…
Saint or sinner? Suttee in the depiction of Flora Annie Steel and Cornelia Sorabji
Suttee is a well-discussed and widely researched topic and yet the literary representations of it are not sufficiently probed into. Suttee, if merely understood as the rite of widow burning in India, is one of the cruelest practices of female subjugation. Hence, women’s attempts at articulating their views on such a practice are significant. This becomes more arresting when two women writers come from different (even opposing!) cultures and stand…
Suttee Sainthood through Selflessness: Pain of Repression or Power of Devotion
The immolation of Hindu widows has generated much horror while remaining tenaciously mixed with clandestine admiration. Reported in many eyewitness accounts and literary works, the topic has given rise to highly contested sociocultural, legal and ideological debates, strongly linked to women’s rights. But the root question has not gone away: is suttee/sati just painful female victimisation or can it also reflect powerful female agency and the pow…
Memsahibs’ Writings: Colonial Narratives on Indian Women
Memsahibs’ Writings: Colonial Narratives on Indian Women Edited by Indrani Sen New Delhi, Orient Longman, 2008 xxix+313 pp., ISBN: 81-250-3314-9 (IRs 650.00 hardback) The Memsahib is perhaps the be
Memsahibs’ Writings: Colonial Narratives on Indian Women
Memsahibs’ Writings: Colonial Narratives on Indian Women Edited by Indrani Sen New Delhi, Orient Longman, 2008 xxix+313 pp., ISBN: 81-250-3314-9 (IRs 650.00 hardback) The Memsahib is perhaps the be
Suttee Sainthood through Selflessness: Pain of Repression or Power of Devotion
The immolation of Hindu widows has generated much horror while remaining tenaciously mixed with clandestine admiration. Reported in many eyewitness accounts and literary works, the topic has given rise to highly contested sociocultural, legal and ideological debates, strongly linked to women’s rights. But the root question has not gone away: is suttee/sati just painful female victimisation or can it also reflect powerful female agency and the pow…
Lady Missionary in the Memsahib's Depiction
The “Lady Missionary” is quite a favourite topic for exploring both the theological concern of “Women's work for Religious Cause” as well as the more feminist approach of “Women's work for Women's Cause”. And yet, there is not much work done when it comes to the literary representation of this enterprising woman of the colonial era despite the fact that she is not absent in literature. Missionary women play central or less significant side-roles …
Toni Morrison's Disrupted Girls and Their Disturbed Girlhoods: The Bluest Eye and A Mercy
Toni Morrison's Disrupted Girls and Their Disturbed Girlhoods The Bluest Eye and A Mercy Susmita Roye (bio) There were no books about me, I didn't exist in all the literature I had read ... this person, this female, this black did not exist center-self. —Toni Morrison quoted in Jill Matus We never shape the world. . . . The world shapes us. —Toni Morrison, A Mercy It is the urge to find a "person," a "female," a "black" like herself in literature…
Saint or sinner? Suttee in the depiction of Flora Annie Steel and Cornelia Sorabji
Suttee is a well-discussed and widely researched topic and yet the literary representations of it are not sufficiently probed into. Suttee, if merely understood as the rite of widow burning in India, is one of the cruelest practices of female subjugation. Hence, women’s attempts at articulating their views on such a practice are significant. This becomes more arresting when two women writers come from different (even opposing!) cultures and stand…
Politics of Sculpting the ‘New’ Indian Woman in Premchand’s Stories: Everthing the Mem is Not
This article focuses on two short stories by Munshi Premchand (1880–1936), a stalwart in modern Hindi literature. The aim is to counter the growing amnesia among the general readership about Premchand’s phenomenal contribution to India’s nationalist literature and to challenge the prevailing over-simplistic analysis of his depiction of Indian and Western womanhood. It is widely understood that Premchand, as a traditionalist and nationalist, eulog…
Flora Annie Steel: A Critical Study of an Unconventional Memsahib
Flora Annie Steel (1847–1929) was a contemporary of Rudyard Kipling and rivaled his popularity as a writer during her lifetime, but her legacy faded due to gender-biased politics. She spent 22 years in India, mainly in the Punjab. This collection is the first to focus entirely on this “unconventional memsahib” and her contribution to turn-of-the-century Anglo-Indian literature. The eight essays draw attention to Steel’s multifaceted work—ranging …
Mothering India: Women's Fiction in English Shaping Cultural History (1890-1947)
Mothering India concentrates on early Indian women’s fiction, not only evaluating their contribution to the rise of Indian Writing in English (IWE), but also exploring how they reassessed and challenged stereotypes about Indian womanhood, thereby partaking in the larger debate about social reform legislations relating to women’s rights in British India. Early women’s writings are of immense archival significance by virtue of the time period they …
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