Being a Woman
Woman and her Condition in the Short Stories of Rabindranath Tagore, and Begum Rokeya Sakhawat Hussain
Abstract
In many of his letters and interviews Rabindranath Tagore confesses that he started writing short stories under the influence of the village folktales popular in rural Bengal. Short stories of Tagore, such as The Hungry Stone and Jibit o Mrit, particularly look at the women of the period. Similarly, Begum Rokeya portrays through her writing the condition of the nineteenth-century Indian woman. Countering the western notions of femininity, she goes on to represent the nineteenth-century Bengali woman as free and enlightened. This paper looks at the short stories of these two authors and examines the representation of female anxiety in their texts.
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woman · nation · short stories · BengalCite this article
Amar, S. (2024). Woman and her Condition in the Short Stories of Rabindranath Tagore, and Begum Rokeya Sakhawat Hussain. Dialogos, 41, 111–126. https://doi.org/10.24818/DLG/2024/41/08
Amar, Shruti. “Woman and her Condition in the Short Stories of Rabindranath Tagore, and Begum Rokeya Sakhawat Hussain.” Dialogos, vol. 41, 2024, pp. 111–26, https://doi.org/10.24818/DLG/2024/41/08.
Amar, Shruti. 2024. “Woman and her Condition in the Short Stories of Rabindranath Tagore, and Begum Rokeya Sakhawat Hussain.” Dialogos 41: 111–26. https://doi.org/10.24818/DLG/2024/41/08.
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