Mayurika Chakravorty
Instructors
Department of English Language and Literature
Carleton University
Canada
Biography
Mayurika Chakravorty Degrees: B.A. Honours (Calcutta University); M.A., M.Phil. (JNU); Ph.D. (SOAS, University of London)
Research Interest
Postcolonial Fantasy and Science Fiction South Asian Literature and Popular Culture Childhood/Girlhood in Literature Diaspora Literature Literature and/of Globalization
Publications
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“Skeletons of History: Fact and Fiction in Rakhal Das Bandyopadhyay’s Sasanka†South Asia Research (London, November 2004), 171-183.
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Girlhood in Sidhwa’s Cracking India and Arundhati Roy’s God of Small Things.†Forthcoming in South Asian Review
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Enchantment and the Politics of Subversion: Speculative Fiction in Colonial India (monograph). Manuscript in preparation.
