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Women-Centric or Feminist? Gender Politics in Tagore’s Texts
There has been some indeterminism in claiming that Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) can be regarded as the first feminist creative writer of colonial Bengal in British India. Scholars, critics and pundits of Tagore studies have often cited ambiguity and ambivalence in Tagore’s representation of women in his varied writing in multiple genres, ranging from poems, plays and novels to short stories and essays. Many have commented that Tagore’s texts gestured more towards an explicit woman-centric paradigm rather than accentuating an overt feminist agenda. In this talk Professor Dasgupta will primarily focus on Tagore’s short stories that foreground an unequivocal feminist assertion, quite unprecedented in colonial Bengali literature. Feminist assertiveness is an evolving process in Tagore’s texts. Tagore reclaimed women from their subaltern status within the domestic space by narrativizing the resistance and resilience of colonized women who strove to break free from severe patriarchal control.
Date:
17 October 2024, 12:30
Venue:
St John's College, St Giles OX1 3JP
Venue Details:
New Seminar Room
Speaker:
Sanjukta Dasgupta (Calcutta University)
Organising department:
Faculty of History
Organisers:
Eleanor Birch,
Brenda Stevenson,
Meryem Kalayci,
Hannah Skoda,
Lyndal Roper
Part of:
Centre for Women’s, Gender, and Queer History events (WGQ) [formerly known as CGIS].
Booking required?:
Not required
Audience:
Members of the University only
Editor:
Belinda Clark
