dc.contributor.advisor |
Samuels, Lisa |
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dc.contributor.author |
Ghatak, Nisha |
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dc.date.accessioned |
2021-08-24T23:06:30Z |
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dc.date.available |
2021-08-24T23:06:30Z |
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dc.date.issued |
2021 |
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dc.identifier.uri |
https://hdl.handle.net/2292/56133 |
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dc.description.abstract |
This comparative study of female desire and bilingualism interprets two 20th century
autobiographies from India: Kamala Das, My Story (1988), and Maitreyi Devi’s It Does Not
Die - A Romance (1994). The research focuses on their position as privileged post-colonial
women engaging in self-translation of their autobiographies - from Malayalam and Bengali
into English - while articulating a multiplicity of literate female desires in the contexts of
education, family organization, history and caste relations, and authorial identity. In its
contextual analyses and in its textual analyses of Das and Devi's autobiographies and their
self-translations, this research addresses a significant gap in the scholarship of self-translation
and post-colonial female desire in modern Indian women’s autobiographical writings. This
discourse of self-translation and literate female desires aims to address the multiplicity of
desires within postcolonial women’s confessional writing by suggesting theoretical
frameworks that emerge but break away from Anglo-American conceptualizations of selftranslation
and psychoanalytic feminism. |
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dc.publisher |
ResearchSpace@Auckland |
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dc.relation.ispartof |
PhD Thesis - University of Auckland |
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dc.relation.isreferencedby |
UoA |
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dc.rights |
Items in ResearchSpace are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated. |
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dc.rights |
Items in ResearchSpace are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated. |
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dc.rights.uri |
https://researchspace.auckland.ac.nz/docs/uoa-docs/rights.htm |
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dc.rights.uri |
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/nz/ |
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dc.title |
Alterities of Desire: A Comparative Analysis of 20th century Women’s Autobiographical Writings from India |
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dc.type |
Thesis |
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thesis.degree.discipline |
Comparative Literature |
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thesis.degree.grantor |
The University of Auckland |
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thesis.degree.level |
Doctoral |
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thesis.degree.name |
PhD |
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dc.date.updated |
2021-06-29T22:02:20Z |
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dc.rights.holder |
Copyright: The author |
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dc.rights.accessrights |
http://purl.org/eprint/accessRights/OpenAccess |
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