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Tagore′s Ideas of the New Woman: The Making and Unmaking of Female Subjectivity

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Sage Publications India Pvt. Ltd. 2017 New DelhiDescription: 276pISBN:
  • 9789381345160
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 891.44 TAG
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Part I: Beyond Essentialism
1. Tagore and Woman: Some Throughs
2. Shantiniketan: Education for Girls

Part II: Nature and Spirituality
3. Gender and the Spiritual Quest in Tagore's Poetry
4. Rabindranath's Chandalika: Woman as Prakriti and Prakriti in Woman

Part III: Realm of Domesticity
5. Domestic Space in Tagore's Fiction
6. Tagore's Docile Daughters: Ambivalence in Family Life
7. Re-reading Rabindranath Tagore's "Streer Patra" (The Wife’s Letter, 1914) in the Light of Epistolary Culture in Colonia India

Part IV: Selfhood and Agency
8. How to Fool Women: Tagore’s Tales of Seduction
9. The Dichotomies of Body and Mind Spaces: The Widows in Chokher Bali and Chaturanga Chandrava Chakravarty
10. “Bimala Is What She IS’: Re-reading Bimala and Gender (In)justice in Rabindranath’s The Home and the World

Part V: Women in Travel Writings
11. The “Other” Women in Targore’s Travels to Europe
12. Rabindranath Tagore’s Travelogues and the Absent Female Voice

Part VI: Women in Other Arts
13. Gender in Rabindrasangeet
14. Breaking the Mould: Paintings by Rabindranath Tagore
15. Women in Tagore’s Dance-Dramas
16. Tagore’s New Woman and the Contradictions of Patriarchy: Adapting Char Adhyay as Elar Char Adhyay

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