TY  - BOOK
AU  - Saswati Sengupta and others
AU  - SENGUPTA (Saswati) Ed
AU  - ROY (Shampa) Ed
AU  - PURKAYASTHA (Sharmila) Ed
TI  - Towards freedom: critical essays on Rabindranath Tagores Ghare Baire  the home and the world
SN  - 9788125031871
U1  - 820.409 23
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Hyderabad
PB  - Orient Blackswan
KW  - Indian English Essays
KW  - Indian English Literature
N2  - Rabindranath Tagore's Ghare Baire was first serialized in 1914 and published as a novel in 1916. The events in the novel deal with the period 1905-7, a period of tremendous political unrest in Bengal. The public upheaval takes place alongside another revolution – that of women's emancipation and a new gender equation. Ghare Bhaire (The Home and the World) is the first fictional exploration of the tangled web of crucial issues related to the two spheres, the home and the world, in early twentieth century Bengal. Towards Freedom is a collection of critical essays on the issues raised by Tagore's novel in a contemporary world where differences of religion, region, class, caste, gender, etc., constantly demand to be addressed. It focuses upon the crafting of the novel out of complex historical contexts of caste, class and gender politics. By examining the play of ideologies in this novel, the anthology aims to help students recognize the importance of locating imaginative literature within its histories. Given that most of these structured hierarchies of oppression function powerfully in our lives even today, Towards Freedom stresses the continuing relevance of engaging with the issues raised by a novel which looks at the private and the political as intertwined
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