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Reconstructing Urban Spaces in Sushmita Banerjee's Kabuliwalar Bangali Bou: The Memoir as a Narrative of Marital Migration in the South Asian Context

Reconstructing Urban Spaces in Sushmita Banerjee's Kabuliwalar Bangali Bou: The Memoir as a Narrative of Marital Migration in the South Asian Context

Monali Chatterjee
Copyright: © 2023 |Pages: 22
ISBN13: 9781668466506|ISBN10: 1668466503|ISBN13 Softcover: 9781668466513|EISBN13: 9781668466520
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-6684-6650-6.ch009
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Chatterjee, Monali. "Reconstructing Urban Spaces in Sushmita Banerjee's Kabuliwalar Bangali Bou: The Memoir as a Narrative of Marital Migration in the South Asian Context." Urban Poetics and Politics in Contemporary South Asia and the Middle East, edited by Moussa Pourya Asl, IGI Global, 2023, pp. 176-197. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-6684-6650-6.ch009

APA

Chatterjee, M. (2023). Reconstructing Urban Spaces in Sushmita Banerjee's Kabuliwalar Bangali Bou: The Memoir as a Narrative of Marital Migration in the South Asian Context. In M. Pourya Asl (Ed.), Urban Poetics and Politics in Contemporary South Asia and the Middle East (pp. 176-197). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-6684-6650-6.ch009

Chicago

Chatterjee, Monali. "Reconstructing Urban Spaces in Sushmita Banerjee's Kabuliwalar Bangali Bou: The Memoir as a Narrative of Marital Migration in the South Asian Context." In Urban Poetics and Politics in Contemporary South Asia and the Middle East, edited by Moussa Pourya Asl, 176-197. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2023. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-6684-6650-6.ch009

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Abstract

This chapter explores Sushmita Banerjee's memoir titled Kabuliwalar Bangali Bou (1997) that portrays the horrors of displacement and city life in the South Asian context. The memoir poignantly chronicles the experiences of an urban Bengali woman who marries an Afghan businessman for love and migrates to Afghanistan during the rule of the Taliban. The objectives of the study are four-fold: 1) to establish the relationship between the vitality of urban space and the nature of social conventions that migrants are expected to follow; 2) to observe how such social and urban conventions and geopolitics affect migration, migrants, and diasporic communities; 3) to examine the reconstruction of urban spaces by women within the Taliban-governed nation of Afghanistan; and 4) to examine their narratives of urban space in the light of Foucault's dichotomy between private and public space as well as Heterotopia, Soja's notion of the third space, and Lefebvre's maxim about social space.

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