Dwelling in the Archive: Women Writing House, Home, and History in Late Colonial India by Antoinette Burton

Dwelling in the Archive: Women Writing House, Home, and History in Late Colonial India

Antoinette Burton

216 pages • first pub 2003 (editions)

nonfiction gender history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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Dwelling in the Archives uses the writing of three 20th century Indian women to interrogate the status of the traditional archive, reading their memoirs, fictions, and histories as counter-narratives of colonial modernity. Janaki Majumdar was the ...

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