{"id":7360,"date":"2023-10-31T13:40:04","date_gmt":"2023-10-31T17:40:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sis\/?p=7360"},"modified":"2026-06-30T11:51:24","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T15:51:24","slug":"fantasy-and-subversion-childrens-fantasy-literature-in-colonial-bengal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sis\/2023\/fantasy-and-subversion-childrens-fantasy-literature-in-colonial-bengal\/","title":{"rendered":"Fantasy and Subversion: Children\u2019s Fantasy Literature in Colonial Bengal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Fantasy and Subversion: Children\u2019s Fantasy Literature in Colonial Bengal\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A talk by Mayurika Chakravorty about children&#8217;s fantasy literature and anti-colonial nationalism in Bengal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"location-info__address-text wp-block-paragraph\">Room 4207, 4th floor, Maanjiwe Nendamowin building,<br>\nUniversity of Toronto Mississauga, UTM<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1535 Outer Circle Mississauga, ON L5L 3E2<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>\nMayurika Chakravorty will draw upon children&#8217;s fantasies from Bengal during the colonial period to speak about anti-colonial nationalism and the role of children&#8217;s literature, especially fantasy literature, against the backdrop of the subcontinent&#8217;s tumultuous sociopolitical landscape at the time. Particular focus will be on the genre&#8217;s propensity for subversion of authority, both political\/colonial as well as cultural\/literary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><strong>Mayurika Chakravorty<\/strong><\/em><em> is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English and the Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies (Childhood and Youth Studies program), Carleton University, Canada. Her research focuses on fantasy and speculative fiction; children\u2019s literature; and the representation of children and youth in literature and media. Dr. Chakravorty holds a Ph.D. from the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, UK and was a Felix doctoral scholar. Her first book, based on her Ph.D. research on fantasy and speculative literature in colonial India, is forthcoming in 2024. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/Anti-ColonialFantasy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Get free tickets<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A talk by Mayurika Chakravorty about children&#8217;s fantasy literature and anti-colonial nationalism in Bengal. Room 4207, 4th floor, Maanjiwe Nendamowin building, University of Toronto Mississauga, UTM 1535 Outer Circle Mississauga, ON L5L 3E2 Mayurika Chakravorty will draw upon children&#8217;s fantasies from Bengal during the colonial period to speak about anti-colonial nationalism and the role of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7362,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[29,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chst-news","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7360"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8665,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7360\/revisions\/8665"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}