Department of English
Latitudes: Work in progress talk, "Sarath Kumar Ghosh as Scheherazade: Hindu Heroism in Indian Nights' Entertainment: The Trials of Narayan Lal."
- Thursday, April 23, 2015 - 4:30pm to 5:30pm
FBH 330
Monika works on colonial and postcolonial studies with a focus on South Asia. Her dissertation, provisionally entitled “Imagining Bharat: British Orientalism, Nationalism, and Temporality in the Colonial Bengali Novel, 1882-1926,” examines how turn-of-the-century Bengali writers such as Bankim Chattopadhyay, Sarath Kumar Ghosh, S.M. Mitra, and Rabindranath Tagore negotiated the emerging understanding of India as the mythic Hindu space “Bharat” and how their particular deployments of the novel form perpetuated or contested this cultural imagining. We will workshop one of her chapters together.