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The Emergence of Rupkatha as a Literary Genre in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Bengal: A Historical Enquiry

Sanglap : journal of literary and cultural inquiry, 2020-05, Vol.6 (2), p.15-23 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

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  • Title:
    The Emergence of Rupkatha as a Literary Genre in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Bengal: A Historical Enquiry
  • Author: Chakraborty, Amrita
  • Subjects: 19th century ; 20th century ; Bengali ; Children ; Collections ; Collectors ; Cultural heritage ; Education ; Ethics ; Folklore ; Genre ; History ; Influence ; Juncture ; Oral tradition ; Politics ; Prose ; Storytelling ; Writing
  • Is Part Of: Sanglap : journal of literary and cultural inquiry, 2020-05, Vol.6 (2), p.15-23
  • Description: Acknowledging that every genre has a history, that genres in practice arise, change and decline because of historical reasons and that genre concepts do not exist independently but in an inter-related manner within a system of genres (Cohen 206), this paper intends to be a case study of the rupkatha, which as a literary genre made an appearance at a critical juncture of South Asian history and was shaped by the intellectual, cultural and political forces of the time and its milieu. The Grimm brothers collection met with immediate success and subsequently had a huge impact on later collectors in Europe as well as the rest of the world. [...]in the aftermath of the Indian Mutiny of 1857 and the consolidation of India under the British crown, knowledge about the natives was believed to be integral to the smooth running of the empire. While Day, Sovana Sundari Devi, Suniti Devi who wrote and published their collections in English were targeting the Anglophone reading public both within India and in England, Mitra Majumdar, whose books were in Bengali, was writing for the native colonial educated classes. Rabindranath Tagore, who wrote a short prose piece as an introduction to Mitra Majumdar's Thakurmar Jhuli, refers to the child who is made to read Martin's Ethics and Burke's Reflections on the French Revolution, at the cost of his own traditions and cultural heritage, as the intended reader of the book (Tagore 2).
  • Publisher: Leamington Spa: Ratnabali Publishers
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: EISSN: 2349-8064
  • Source: AUTh Library subscriptions: ProQuest Central
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