The Bengal Famine and Cultural Production

This book analyses the various modes of representation used by Anglophone authors and artists in response to the Bengal Famine of 1943. It will be of interest to researchers in the field of South Asian history, the history of the Bengal famine, South Asian Anglophone literature, twentieth century art history, and trauma theory.

Babli Sinha is Associate Professor of English and Director of Media Studies at Kalamazoo College, USA. She is the author of Cinema, Transnationalism, and Colonial India: Entertaining the Raj (2013) and editor of South Asian Transnationalisms: Cultural Exchange in the Twentieth Century (2012), also published by Routledge.

Introduction; Chapter One: The Long Famine in The Bengal Tragedy and Famine and Rehabilitation in Bengal; Chapter Two: Emotion and Resistance in T.G. Narayan's Famine Over Bengal; Chapter Three: Love as a Decolonial Framework in Freda Bedi's Bengal Lamenting; Chapter Four: Trauma and Referentiality in Bhabani Bhattacharya's Famine Novels; Chapter Five: Opacity and Witnessing in Ela Sen's and Zainul Abedin's Darkening Days; Chapter Six: The Recognition of Suffering in Chittaprosad's Hungry Bengal; Chapter Seven: Activism and Restraint in the Famine Photography of Sunil Janah; Chapter Eight: "Innumerable Wounds": The Marked Bodies of Somnath Hore; Epilogue: Continuities