Mourning the Mother
Death and Feminine Authority in Odia Commemorations of Queen Victoria
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12411779 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Pritipuspa Mishra (0000-0001-5807-844X, University of Southampton, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 52 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 171-190 |
| Publication date | 2024-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Victorian Literature and Culture (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1060-1503 • E-ISSN: 1470-1553 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s1060150323000785 |
| OpenAlex | W4394798117 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 4 |
The death of Queen Victoria occasioned the publication of commemorative narratives in early twentieth-century Odisha. They serve as site for understanding how feminine authority was imagined as the Odia literati engaged in a fraught movement for the formation of a separate province of Odisha. They imagined an Odia motherland in relation to figures of maternal authority such as mother India and mother Victoria. This article explores this vernacular representation of the queen as mother in the work of the poet Madhusudan Rao. By drawing on traditions of lament and maternal authority, the article illustrates how Rao used lament to carve out a palimpsest of multiple identities, from imperial subjecthood to regional belonging
Art · Art history · Genealogy · Lament · Literature · Narrative · Palimpsest · Political science · Politics · Queen (butterfly · Relation (database · Representation (politics · Sociology · Vernacular · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Gender Studies · History · Law · South Asian Studies and Conflicts
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |