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Hardcover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. Contents: Introduction by Mohammad A. Quayum and Md. Mahmudul Hasan. 1. Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain: A Biographical Essay/Mohammad A. Quayum. 2. Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain and the Gender Debate among Muslim Intellectuals in Late Colonial Bengal/Mahua Sarkar. 3. Inspired by the Bengal Renaissance: Rokeya s Role in the Education and Emancipation of Bengali (Muslim) Women/Mohammad A. Quayum. 4. From Sakhawat Memorial School to Rokeya Hall: A Journey Towards Language as Self-Respect/Sarmistha Dutta Gupta. 5. Contextualising Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain s Work in South Asian Muslim Feminism/Md. Mahmudul Hasan. 6. A Feminist Critique of Patriarchy: Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain/Bharati Ray. 7. A Not So Banal Evil: Rokeya in Confrontation with Patriarchy/Srimati Mukherjee. 8. The Private-Public Dichotomy in Rokeya s Work/Md. Mahmudul Hasan. 9. Educating Women, (Not) Serving the Nation: The Interface of Feminism and Nationalism in the Works of Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain/Md. Rezaul Haque. 10. Marginalisation of Muslim Writers in South Asian Literature: Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain s English Works/Md. Mahmudul Hasan. 11. Sultana s Utopian Awakening: An Ecocritical Reading of Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain s Sultana s Dream/Fayeza Hasanat. 12. Crossing Borders: Hindu-Muslim Relations in the Works of Rabindranath Tagore and Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain/Mohammad A. Quayum. 13. Entertainer-Educators: Humour, Gender and Education in Selected Writings of Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain, Lila Majumdar and Nabaneeta Dev Sen/Barnita Bagchi. Index. This volume looks at the life and works of Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain (1880-1932), arguably Bengal s earliest and boldest feminist, revered as a crusader for the emancipation and advancement of women, in particular Bengali Muslim women. Through her spirited writings and her activism, Rokeya challenged the two pillars of patriarchy - hierarchical family structures and religious dogma. She demanded that the family be restructured on the basis of gender equality. A devout Muslim, she asked that women be recognised as human beings in their own right within practices of Islam. Born into an orthodox Muslim family, for Rokeya, the most vital way in which women could empower themselves was through education. The Sakhawat Memorial Girls School in Kolkata, started by Rokeya in 1911, still stands as an enduring testament to that belief. This collection of biographical and critical essays places Rokeya within the socio-cultural and historical context of her times to better appreciate her literary and social contributions in the face of the formidable challenges she faced as a Bengali Muslim woman. The essays also aim to understand why the extraordinary vision she had, not just for women but for an ideal, more gender-just society, continues to be as radical, powerful and relevant today, almost a century after her death. This volume will be a valuable asset to students and scholars of women s and gender studies, as also of South Asian literature and culture.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Contents 1 Rabindranath Tagore and Hermann Keyserling A Difficult FriendshipMartin Kampchen 2 Rabindranath Tagore The Poet and the PeopleSukanta Chaudhuri 3 A Herald of Religious Unity Rabindranath Tagore?s Literary Representation of MuslimsMohammad A Quayum 4 Never Not an Educator Rabindranath Tagore as a Poet-TeacherWilliam Radice 5 Tagore and Education Creativity Mutuality and SurvivalKathleen M O?Connell 6 Rabindranath Tagore?s Visva-Bharati University and Its Ideal of International Cooperation A Case Study of China and India 1921?1941Uma Das Gupta 7 Empire and Nation Rabindranath Tagore?s Political Ideology in His Travel WritingsMohammad A Quayum 8 Rabindranath Tagore?s Nationalist Thought A RetrospectNarasingha P Sil9 The Author as Actor Rabindranath Tagore as a Performer in His PlaysAbhijit Sen 10 A Blueprint for Reinventing Tagorean PerformanceAnanda Lal 11 At the Margins of Family Life Abjection and Purification in Rabindranath Tagore?s BinodiniLalita Pandit Hogan 12 Rabindranath Tagore?s Political Imagination in The Home and the World A Textual and Contextual ReadingMohammad A Quayum 13 ?New Woman? in Rabindranath Tagore?s Short Stories An Interrogation of ?The Laboratory?Bharati Ray Glossary Bibliography Notes on the Contributors Index Seventy years after his death Tagores genius still provides ample scope for critical analyses of his writings especially in the English language and outside the subcontinentA collection of thirteen essays The Poet and His World Critical Essays on Rabindranath Tagore enhances critical literature on Tagore Looking at different aspects of Tagores life and philosophy the chapters in this volume are sequenced from the more general to the specific They analyse the poet?s life and relationships his moral educational political and dramaturgical philosophy and finally provide textual analysis of select individual works like the novels Gora and The Home and the World and a short story The LaboratoryEminent scholars like Sukanta Chaudhuri Martin Kämpchen William Radice Bharati Ray Kathleen M O?Connell Uma Das Gupta to name a few have contributed to this volume Brought out on the 150th birth anniversary of the poet this book will be an unputdownable read for students and scholars of literature and culture studies 316 pp.