1st Edition
Novelist Tagore Gender and Modernity in Selected Texts
By Radha Chakravarty
Copyright 2013
170 Pages
by
Routledge India
170 Pages
by
Routledge India
170 Pages
by
Routledge India
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Rabindranath Tagore is widely regarded as a poet-philosopher and educationist, but his novels remain a relatively underexplored aspect of his oeuvre. Focusing on gender and modernity as key features of his fiction, this book charts Tagore's evolution as a novelist from self-conscious psychologizing in Chokher Bali to an engagement with nationalism in Gora and Ghare Baire ( The Home and the... Read more
Acknowledgements. Introduction. 1. Chokher Bali: The Novel of the New Age 2. Gora: Nationalism and the Quest for Identity 3. Quartet: Reason, Religion and Sexuality 4. The Home and the World: Gender and Nationalism 5. Yogayog: A World in Transition 6. Farewell Song: Romance and Realism 7. Four Chapters: The Language of Violence. Bibliography. About the Author. Index.
Biography
Radha Chakravarty is a literary critic and translator. She teaches English Literature at Gargi College, University of Delhi.
