Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; 1 Western approaches to childhood: An overview; 2 Literary and nonliterary representations of the child in nineteenth-century Bengal: A Background; 3 The twentieth-century child versus the home and family; 4 Growing resentments: The school and the education system; 5 Escapes: Real and fantastic; 6 Encounters with the world beyond: Responding to the nation in crisis; 7 The rebel child and the conformist resolution; Glossary; Select bibliography; Index
Summary
This seminal work examines the concurrence of childhood rebellion and conformity in Bengali literary texts (including adult texts), a pertinent yet unexplored area, making it a first of its kind. It is a study of the voice of child protagonists across children's and adult literature in Bengali vis-à-vis the institutions of family, the education system, and the nationalist movement in the ninenteenth and twentieth centuries
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 200-216) and index
