Radical Rabindranath : nation, family, and gender in Tagore's fiction and films /

Dasgupta, Sanjukta

Radical Rabindranath : nation, family, and gender in Tagore's fiction and films / Sanjukta Dasgupta, Sudeshna Chakravarti and Mary Mathew - New Delhi : Orient Blackswan, 2013. - xlvi, 343 p. ; 23 cm.

Introduction -- Reading Rabindranath Tagore
1. Nature, culture; My world will burn its hundred lamps'; highlights from a magnificent life -- 2. Rabindranath and some prominent contemporaries; patriarchy and society -- 3. The lighted lamp; radical definitions of female empowerment -- 4. Evolving women; Tagore's short stories as resistance literature -- 5. Nation, politics and gender in colonial India : Ghare Baire, Char Adhyay and Gora -- 6. Gender politics and familial relations : Chokher Bali, Naukadubu, Jogajog, Shesher Kabita -- 7. Tagore's narratives as films; the early period (1932-1960) -- 8. From fiction to film; reading Tagore's texts as visual narratives (1960 to the present) -- 9. Conclusion; Tagore in our times

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Tagore, Rabindranath, 1861-1941--Criticism and Interpretation
Nationalism in Literature
Feminism in Literature
Families in Literature

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