Motichur
OUP India (Verlag)
978-0-19-945037-4 (ISBN)
A fiery proponent of the independence of women, Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain (1880-1932) was denied formal education, but emerged as a leading thinker and writer of her time and founded a school for girls. Set against the backdrop of surging nationalism and reform in the twentieth-century Bengal, this selection of writings by Rokeya captures the true spirit of a South Asian proto-feminist who is every bit as radical as her contemporaries-Virginia Woolf and Charlotte Perkins Gilman. From 'Sultana's Dream', a canonical work of Rokeya, to writings on women's status in a patriarchal set-up, her comments on 'feeble' Bengali society, purdah [veil] system, religion, and the idea of a perfect housewife among others, this work will open up a factual, fictional, and fantastical-utopian world, which remained largely unknown and unheard outside Bengal.
Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain (author): A fiery proponent of the independence of women, Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain was a leading writer of her time and founded a school for girls. Ratri Roy (translator) is former Professor and Head, Department of English, Patna University, India. Prantosh Bandyopadhyay (translator) is a peace actvisit and Rokeya scholar.
Dedication Page of Motichur, Vol. I (1st edn.) ; Dedication Page (2nd edn.) ; An Explanation ; Advertisement ; Introduction by Mushirul Hasan ; Thirst ; The Degradation of Women ; The Inoffensive Bengali ; The Better Half ; The Good Housewife ; The Burkha ; Home, Sweet Home ; Dedication ; Foreword ; Advertisement ; Nur Islam ; The Solar System ; Sultana's Dream ; The Murder of Delicia ; The Fruit of Knowledge ; The Creation of Woman ; Nurse Nellie ; Childcare ; The Fruit of Freedom ; Creation ; About Translators
Verlagsort | New Delhi |
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Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 139 x 215 mm |
Gewicht | 330 g |
Themenwelt | Literatur ► Anthologien |
Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
ISBN-10 | 0-19-945037-4 / 0199450374 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-945037-4 / 9780199450374 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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