Of captivity and resistance: women political prisoners in postcolonial india
Auteur :
Purkayastha, Sharmila
Éditeur :
Cambridge University Press
ISBN :
9781009273176
Date de publication :
21 sept. 2023
Dimensions :
23,6 x 15,8 x 2,4 cm
Poids :
580 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
An intervention in the field of dissenting writings by women political detainees in India in the 1970s, and it straddles three interlinked areas: politics, prison and writing. It focuses on writings arising out of Bengal's Naxalite movement (1967–1975) and from the pan-Indian period of Emergency (1975–1977).