Sanjukta Dasgupta Sanjukta Dasgupta i(A105538 works by)
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1 Australia-India : Treasures from the Album of Human Memories Sanjukta Dasgupta , 2022 single work essay
— Appears in: Teesta Review : A Journal of Poetry , November vol. 5 no. 2 2022;
1 From Miles Franklin to Germaine Greer : Writing as Activism Sanjukta Dasgupta , 2017 single work criticism
— Appears in: Claiming Space for Australian Women's Writing 2017; (p. 109-126)

'It is perhaps ironic that the first Australian Literary Award would be initiated and funded by an Australian woman writer of remarkable élan, and the first recipient of the award would be the dominant and redoubtable Australian male author Patrick White. Miles Franklin (1879–1954) maybe regarded as Australia’s first feminist woman writer, a pioneering figure, who not only broke the silence but also pushed against the boundaries and borders not without controversy in many cases. Spanning more than a century of activist writing Miles Franklin, Katherine Susannah Pritchard, Jean Devanny, Eleanor Dark and Germaine Greer can be assessed as intrepid voices of Australian women’s writing. Remarkable too is their commitment to and disenchantment with Marxist ideology as supporters and members of the Australian Communist Party.'

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1 2 y separately published work icon Claiming Space for Australian Women's Writing Devaleena Das (editor), Sanjukta Dasgupta (editor), London : Palgrave Macmillan , 2017 13603502 2017 anthology criticism

'This volume explores the subterfuges, strategies, and choices that Australian women writers have navigated in order to challenge patriarchal stereotypes and assert themselves as writers of substance. Contextualized within the pioneering efforts of white, Aboriginal, and immigrant Australian women in initiating an alternative literary tradition, the text captures a wide range of multiracial Australian women authors’ insightful reflections on crucial issues such as war and silent mourning, emergence of a Australian national heroine, racial purity and Aboriginal motherhood, communism and activism, feminist rivalry, sexual transgressions, autobiography and art of letter writing, city space and female subjectivity, lesbianism, gender implications of spatial categories, placement and displacement, dwelling and travel, location and dislocation and female body politics. Claiming Space for Australian Women’s Writing tracks Australian women authors’ varied journeys across cultural, political and racial borders in the canter of contemporary political discourse.'

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1 The Two Way Flows : Connecting Cultures, Understanding Others Sanjukta Dasgupta , 2011 single work criticism
— Appears in: Landscape, Place and Culture : Linkages between Australia and India 2011; (p. 2-13)
'Sanjukta Dasgupta's introductory essay contains a reminder of early comparisons of Australian and Indian agricultural development, for example in the study by the second Australian Prime Minister, Alfred Deakin, Irrigated India: An Australian View of India and Ceylon. Dasgupta explores connections in cultural, political and economic realms, arising from migration and diaspora narratives, from concepts of "transnation", from the "othering of the unknown as uncanny", and the reversal of othering within the diasporic community. It is a call for a more holistic understanding of our varied political affiliations, the "sharing of capital at all levels", and cultural exchange in search of new ties and new mappings of location and geographies (Editor's preface).
1 Oh! Incredible India: Australian Matilda’s Exotic Indian Safari in a Hindustan Contessa with her Australian-Indian/Bengali Husband Milan Sanjukta Dasgupta , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Studies : Reading History, Culture and Identity 2010; (p. 52-65)
1 Oh! Incredible India : Matilda's Exotic Indian Safari in a Hindustan Contessa Sanjukta Dasgupta , 2008 single work criticism
— Appears in: Hecate , vol. 34 no. 1 2008; (p. 175-184)
'Jane Watson's Hindustan Contessa published in 2002, may be regarded as a fictionalized cultural travelogue that internalizes 'the license of a traveller', for the narrative is deeply subjective and problematic, resonant as it is with the cultural negotiator's confused responses to indigenous customs and lifestyles. The narrative represents the confiictual tensions and bi-cultural stress between two racially distinct individuals who bond emotionally vwthin the enclosed space of the domestic. So the marriage of the white Australian woman to Milan, an Asian/Indian/Bengali immigrant who is now an Australian citizen is a political experience, heralding transcultural and transnational identities.' (Introduction)
1 Australian Abroad : Negotiating Culture, Re-Locating Self Sanjukta Dasgupta , 2005 single work criticism
— Appears in: Journal of the Department of English , vol. 32 no. 1-2 2005; (p. 151-158) Australian Women's Book Review , vol. 20 no. 2 2008;
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