The Bengal Famine and Cultural Production: Signifying Colonial Trauma

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.