Literary Discourse as Site of Colonial Encounter in Nineteenth Century Bengal
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.70042/eroth/30487Keywords:
colonial, Bengal, nineteenth century, English literatureAbstract
My contention in this essay is that the colonial encounter in nineteenth-century Bengal was to a certain extent negotiated through the study of English literature and that a creative engagement with English literature opened up for Bengalis a discursive terrain where not only did they come to terms with an alien culture but reconstituted their subjectivity in relation to it. This paper is an attempt to locate the emergence of this new subjectivity—fraught with innumerable contradictions—within a discursive terrain where notions of literariness were being shaped and contested.
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