Tackling the question of how to recalibrate the relationship between history and theory in our favour without falling into the trap of either an unqualified universalism or a naïve historicism, this article proposes that we move from the position of being a critic of Western theory to that of being a composer and assembler of a new theory from different sources and different histories.
Women’s Images, Men’s Imagination: Female Characters in Bengali Fiction in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century by Banani Mukhia; Manohar, New Delhi, 2002; pp 167, Rs 325
