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Fakir Mohan Senapati's Atmacharita: Episodic Autobiography, History, and Interiority
- Biography
- University of Hawai'i Press
- Volume 44, Number 4, 2021
- pp. 541-560
- 10.1353/bio.2021.0049
- Article
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Abstract
Abstract:
In this essay, I revisit the original autobiography of Fakir Mohan Senapati (1848–1918), serialized as Atmacharita in 1918. Navigating its complex textual history, I argue that Atmacharita, the first Odia autobiography, is a unique experiment in Indian lifewriting practice. Senapati produces an episodic autobiography written in the idiom of a memoir that sets up a triad of fiction, autobiography, and history, engendering a discourse of ordinariness.
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