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Inspired by the 2018 British Women Writers Conference’s invitation to reconsider the work of individuals living at the margins of traditional understandings of nationality and profession, this exhibit highlights the relationship between women writers and British rule in India in the late nineteenth and twentieth century. Where India offered an escape from the orthodoxy of Britain to some, colonial anxieties regarding racial superiority also trapped many women into acting as guardians of traditional British values. At the same time, British rule eroded many Indian cultural practices, including its strict patriarchal order. This led to new educational and professional opportunities for Indian women even as it imported new patriarchal and racial ideologies and left them struggling to articulate new identities. Through a mixture of poetry, fiction, scientific, and personal writing, “New Frontiers” speculates on the complex mixture of freedom and disenfranchisement imposed on both British and Indian women writers by the contradictions of Empire. Curated by Cody Jarman and Mariah Wahl from the Department of English.

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