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1 Australianness in M. L. Skinner’s Exilic Novels Ipsita Sengupta , 2017 single work criticism
— Appears in: Claiming Space for Australian Women's Writing 2017; (p. 309-321)

'M. L. Skinner (1876–1955), the almost anonymous Australian nurse and midwife who was serving at the Hindu Rao hospital in New Delhi when the First World War broke out, had her only brush with fame as writer in Antipodean literary circles when she accomplished a collaboration with D. H. Lawrence in the novel The Boy in the Bush (1924). In this chapter, Sengupta explores Skinner’s alternative models of Australianness moored in intersections, cross-fertilizations, travel and translations, as explored in her novels Tucker Sees India (1937) and W. X. Corporal Smith (1941). Exile from successive homes and anchors had shaped Skinner’s margins and texts. She transforms exile into a transformative exi(s)tential category that engages with plural possibilities of Australianness and exposes black holes in imagining the nation in Australian Literature.'

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1 Untitled Ipsita Sengupta , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: Mascara Literary Review , October no. 10 2011;
— Review of Not Dark Yet : A Personal History David Robert Walker , 2011 single work autobiography
1 India Explored and Jinned : Alfred Deakin's Responses to the Subcontinent S. K. Sareen , Ipsita Sengupta , 2011 single work criticism
— Appears in: Antipodes , June vol. 25 no. 1 2011; (p. 15-20) Epigraph: "Please believe that I am falling apart.
I am not speaking metaphorically; nor is this the opening gambit of some melodramatic, riddling, grubby appeal for pity. I mean quite simply that I have begun to crack all over like an old jug - that my poor body [...] has started coming apart at the seams"
-Rushdie, Midnights Children
'Sareen and Sengupta talk about Alfred Deakin's impeccable colonial idiom, engaging with India in his twin texts Irrigated India: an Australian View of India and Ceylon, Their Irrigation and Agriculture (1893) and Temple and Tomb in India (1893). In dreaming and wombing the Australian Federation into being, Deakin found himself in a Saleem Sinaiesque self-nation equation. It is thus that he chose to visit India in 1890, in the wake of the decade of his deep engagement with the Federation movement, in order to nurture his dream of the Australian nation.' (Editor's abstract)
1 Understanding Mollie's India : Exploring Texts, Co-Texts and Contexts of Letters of a V.A.D. and Tucker Sees India Ipsita Sengupta , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 70 no. 3 2010; (p. 65-80)
1 The Craft of Making and Breaking : Responses to Tradition/s in A. D. Hope and Agha Shahid Ali S. K. Sareen , Ipsita Sengupta , 2008 single work criticism
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 68 no. 3 2008; (p. 284-293) Perceiving Hope as a nonconformist within the Australian literary tradition, the authors compare some aspects of his work with those of Indian poet Ali.
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