Anwesha Maiti

Bankura University, English, Graduate Student

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A budding academician with interests in popular culture and literature, dystopian literature, translation studies, and posthumanism.
Supervisors: Prof Debnarayan Bandyopadhyay

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Papers by Anwesha Maiti

Reading of war in children’s narratives in translation through totto-chan and shaharer meye Anwesha Maiti

Anudhyan An International Journal of Social Sciences, 2022

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Identity Formation as a Site of Resistance: An investigation into posthuman identities through Priya Sarukkai Chabria’s Clone

Anudhyan An International Journal of Social Sciences, 2021

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Reversing the Gazing Eyes a Study of the Tale of Medea and Jason Through Nabaneeta Deb Sen’s Play Medea

Journal of emerging technologies and innovative research, 2019

Historically, ‘ the literature arising out of the West’s encounter with the East’ has been anythi... more Historically, ‘ the literature arising out of the West’s encounter with the East’ has been anything but apolitical. The very foundation of the identity of the Occident has been in relation to, rather in contrast with, the Orient – be is philosophical, social, or purely physical. During the colonial era, as Western scholars started translating classical Oriental texts, catering to the audience of the West, this political move of establishing the Western identity in opposition to the Eastern one became strengthened. And it has been a ‘luxury’ to ‘find oneself’ in a culture that is not one’s own, one that the West has delved into since the time of colonialism. But what happens when the coin is flipped and the Orient decides the make use of the Occident to find ‘herself’? In this paper, I intend to discuss how playwright Nabaneeta Deb Sen has taken a classical occidental tale – the story of Medea, the daughter of King Aeëtes of Colchis, and wife of the leader of Argonauts – Jason, who b...

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Partition Literature In Bengal

I In the post world-war period, the partition of India is the biggest tragedy of this sub-contine... more I In the post world-war period, the partition of India is the biggest tragedy of this sub-continent. The partition of a country does not merely mean an extra line to draw on the map or some fences running through paddy fields, it is also a person's partition from his society, culture, family and above all, himself. The partition of India in 1947 was practically an undeclared civil war. The religion based division of the country anticipated many questions like communalism and the rise of religious fundamentalism. The gory event witnessed the three main religious communities of the sub-continent, the Hindus, the Muslims and the Sikhs, trying to destroy each other completely. Thousands of innocent people were killed, looted, raped and mutilated. While documenting the partition and the resulting calamity, we face many problems. If one community speaks only about its distress then the story-line automatically raises its finger against the other community and the story becomes one-sided and fragmented. Partition, almost uniquely, is one event in our recent history in which familial recall and its encoding are a significant factor in any general reconstruction of it. The importance of literary, autobiographical , oral, historical and fragmentary material for an understanding of partition has now been hugely acknowledged by historians. While the western front witnessed only the 1947 partition, the eastern front, that is, the partition of Bengal was a two fold affair. First, in 1947, Bengal was divided into east and west Bengal. West Bengal remained as a part of India while East Bengal got included into Pakistan as a Muslim oriented land. Then after years of fighting to make Bengali as the national language, in 1971, east Bengal emerged as an independent country, Bangladesh, the birth of which was based solely on language. Within this 25 years [from 1947 to 1971], the Indian subcontinent has witnessed many political changes such as the partition and the birth of Bangladesh, but these events did not have the expected effect on the Bengali literature as it should have. Where we have a vast and noted literary canon of partition literature on and about the division of Punjab, we can hardly count the texts written on partition and its effects in Bengal. While discussing the lack of proper partition literature in Bengal, we come across some significant issues. On one hand, the partition did not affect the established people of west Bengal much, irrespective of religion. For them, the 'refugees' were just the 'others' and partition was considered solely 'their' problem. On the other hand, the 'others', the uprooted people of east Bengal who lost their everything-family, home, motherland, wanted to forget, to wipe out this haunting memory of partition once and for all.

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