Dwelling in the archive : women writing house, home, and history in late colonial India / Antoinette Burton
- Bib ID:
- 2349959
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- Author:
- Burton, Antoinette M., 1961-
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- New York : Oxford University Press, 2003
- x, 202 p. ; 25 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 0195144244
- 0195144252
- Full contents:
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- 1. Memory Becomes Her: Women, Feminist History, and the Archive
- 2. House, Daughter, Nation: Interiority, Architecture, and Historical Imagination in Janaki Majumdar's "Family History"
- 3. Tourism in the Archives: Colonial Modernity and the Zenana in Cornelia Sorabji's Memoirs
- 4. A Girlhood among Ghosts: House, Home, and History in Attia Hosain's Sunlight on a Broken Column
- Epilogue: Archive Fever and the Panopticon of History.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [145]-197) and index.
- Subject:
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- Majumdar, Janaki Agnes Penelope, 1886-1963. Family history
- Hosain, Attia, 1913-. Sunlight on a broken column
- Sorabji, Cornelia India calling
- Indic prose literature (English) -- Women authors -- History and criticism
- Women and literature -- India -- History -- 20th century
- Women -- India -- Biography -- History and criticism
- Families -- India -- Historiography
- Women -- India -- Historiography
- Autobiography -- Women authors
- Families in literature
- Home in literature
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