The Book
This is a book that examines the nineteenth-century cultural history of Orissa from the postcolonial angle by drawing primarily from literary sources. It focuses on issues such as feudalism and colonial modernity, language politics and the rhetoric of progress, westernisation, nativity and border crossing. It brings the archival material to centre stage and employs theatrical tools from the fields of gender, translation and culture studies. The book shows the intersections between colonial subjugations and postcolonial longings.
The Author(s)
Sachidananda Mohanty is Professor and Head, Department of English, University of Hyderabad. He has received several national and international awards as well as the Fulbright fellowship. He has published widely, and has to his credit seventeen books in English and in Oriya such as Understanding Cultural Exchange (1997), Literature and Culture (2001), Travel Writing and the Empire (2003), Travel Writing and Colonialism (2003) and Early Women’s Writing in Orissa 1898–1950: A Lost Tradition (2005).