Sheelalipi Sahana
Biographic Data
| ID | 4237523 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sheelalipi Sahana |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sheelalipi |
| FAMILY NAME | Sahana |
| SIGNATURE | SAHANA S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Edinburgh |
| ORCID | 0009-0007-5853-8427 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Architecture of Laila’s World in Attia Hosain’s Sunlight on a Broken Column
Attia Hosain's Partition novel, Sunlight on a Broken Column (1961), offers possibilities for the physical structure of the home to be analysed through a spatial lens to decode architectural metaphors of the zenana (women's space). This paper explores how the women characters negotiate with the often dichotomised private and public spheres of the home and outside, to show their rising confluence in a modernising nation. This paper grounds gendere…
Introduction
Object as subject
Ismat Chughtai was an Urdu-language writer in India whose affiliation with the Progressive Writers Movement sparked a lifelong tryst with socialism. This article examines the “material agency” found in household objects that help to co-create a society for women within their private gendered domains in which they hold power. The quilt and the diary – objects in Chughtai’s short stories “The Quilt” and “Chhoti Apa” respectively – serve as biograph…
Object as subject
Ismat Chughtai was an Urdu-language writer in India whose affiliation with the Progressive Writers Movement sparked a lifelong tryst with socialism. This article examines the “material agency” found in household objects that help to co-create a society for women within their private gendered domains in which they hold power. The quilt and the diary – objects in Chughtai’s short stories “The Quilt” and “Chhoti Apa” respectively – serve as biograph…
Object as subject
Ismat Chughtai was an Urdu-language writer in India whose affiliation with the Progressive Writers Movement sparked a lifelong tryst with socialism. This article examines the “material agency” found in household objects that help to co-create a society for women within their private gendered domains in which they hold power. The quilt and the diary – objects in Chughtai’s short stories “The Quilt” and “Chhoti Apa” respectively – serve as biograph…
The Architecture of Laila’s World in Attia Hosain’s Sunlight on a Broken Column
Attia Hosain's Partition novel, Sunlight on a Broken Column (1961), offers possibilities for the physical structure of the home to be analysed through a spatial lens to decode architectural metaphors of the zenana (women's space). This paper explores how the women characters negotiate with the often dichotomised private and public spheres of the home and outside, to show their rising confluence in a modernising nation. This paper grounds gendere…
Introduction
Gender Studies (2 works) · History (2 works) · History (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · Agency (philosophy (1 work) · Ancient history (1 work) · Archaeology (1 work) · Architecture (1 work)