Women's Images Men's Imagination Female Characters in Bengali Fiction in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century 1st Published

This work attempts to analyse some of the fictional Texts written in Bengali by Bankimchandra Chattopadhyaya, Rabindranath Tagore and Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyaya. It focuses particularly on women seen in relation to other members of the family, in their varied attempts to create space for themselves within their restrictive social parameters and in their endeavour to forge an individual identity by resisting the given role models.

The Book does not essentialise women into categories, that is, wives, daughters, Widows or prostitutes; it rather perceives each character in her unique subjectivity, marked by ambivalence, hesitation, indecision, ideological conviction, strong determination or other configurations of attitudes. It seeks to place the Narrative texts of a culture at the intersection of different kinds of tensions.

The objective here is not to arrive at a neat theoretical paradigm, but to uncover the paradoxes and ambivalences of the Colonial Bengali educated class that regulated its social code and its constant Erosion and subversion from within, albeit in quiet, rather than assertive ways.

Banani Mukhia teaches English literature at Kamala Nehru College, University of Delhi.

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Chap. 1 : Introduction
Chap. 2 : Interpersonal Relationships
Chap. 3 : Women's Power and Space
Chap. 4 : Search for Identity
Chap. 5 : Conclusion

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The Title "Women's Images Men's Imagination Female Characters in Bengali Fiction in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century" is written by Suranjan Sinha. This book was published in the year 2002. The ISBN number 8173044104|9788173044106 is assigned to the Hardback version of this title. The book displayed here is a 1st Published edition. This book has total of pp. 168 (Pages). The publisher of this title is Manohar Publishers & Distributors. We have about 1315 other great books from this publisher. Women's Images Men's Imagination Female Characters in Bengali Fiction in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century is currently Available with us.