Tagore's ideas of the new woman : the making and unmaking of female subjectivity /
Chandrava Chakravarty, Sneha Kar Chaudhuri.
Bok Engelsk 2017
| Medvirkende | Chaudhuri, Sneha Kar, (author.)
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (276 pages) : : illustrations
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| Utgave | 1st edition.
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| Opplysninger | "Part I: Beyond Essentialism 1. Tagore and Woman : Some Thoughts / Jasodhara Bagchi 2. Shantiniketan : Education for Girls / Uma Das Gupta Part II: Nature and Spirituality 3. Gender and the Spiritual Quest in Tagore's Poetry / Mandakranta Bose 4. Rabindranath's "Chandalika" : Woman as Prakriti and Prakriti in Woman / Malini Bhattacharya Part III: Realm of Domesticity 5. Domestic Space in Tagore's Fiction / Supriya Chaudhuri 6. Tagore's Docile Daughters : Ambivalence in Family Life / Sanjukta Dasgupta 7. Rereading Rabindranath Tagore's Streer Patra (The Wife's Letter, 1914) in the Light of Epistolary Culture in Colonial India / Nandini Bhattacharya Part IV: Selfhood and Agency 8. How to Fool Women : Tagore's Tales of Seduction / Tirthankar Bose 9. The Dichotomies of Body and Mind Spaces : The Widows in Chokher Bali and Chaturanga / Chandrava Chakravarty 10. "Bimala Is What She Is" : Rereading Bimala and Gender (In)justice in Rabindranath?s The Home and the World / Dipannita Datta Part V: Women in Travel Writing 11. The "Other" Women in Tagore's Travels to Europe / Jayati Gupta 12. Rabindranath Tagore's Travelogues and the Absent Female Voice / Amrit Sen Part VI: Women in Other Arts 13. Gender in Rabindrasangeet / Debashish Raychaudhuri 14. Breaking the Mould : Paintings by Rabindranath Tagore / Tapati Gupta 15. Women in Tagore's Dance Dramas / Amita Dutt 16. Tagore's New Woman and the Contradictions of Patriarchy : Adapting Char Adhyay as Elar Char Adhyay / Sneha Kar Chaudhuri About the Editors and Contributors.". - A notable contribution on Tagore's vision of womanhood This book theorizes the continuous reconfigurations-'making' and 'unmaking'-of female subjectivity in Tagore's life, his times, and his works. This transhistorical approach in the book makes gender formations and discourses of the past relevant and necessary to the understanding of postmodern gender issues and ideologies.
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| Emner | Tagore, Rabindranath, , 1861-1941 - Political and social views.
Feminism in literature. Gender identity in literature. Women - Social conditions. - India |
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| ISBN | 93-5328-034-6. - 93-81345-28-7. - 93-81345-29-5
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