Towards Freedom - Critical Essays on Tagore's Ghare Baire

Towards Freedom - Critical Essays on Tagore's Ghare Baire

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Author: Saswati Sengupta
Translator(s)/ Edito: Shampa Roy / Sharmila Purkayastha
Publisher: Orient Longman
Year: 2007
Language: English
Pages: 207
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8125031871

Description

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.

EDITORS:

Saswati Sengupta, Shampa Roy and Sharmila Purkayastha teach English at Miranda House, Delhi University.

CONTRIBUTORS:

Niharranjan Ray, Sambuddha Chakrobarti, Shampa Roy, Saswati Sengupta, Shirshendu Chakrabarti, Sharmila Purkayastha, Sumanta
Banerjee, Sekhar Bandyopadhyay.

Contents

Acknowledgements

Notes on Contributors


Introduction

The Role of Tagore’s Literature
NIHARRANJAN RAY

HOME/GHARE

Andare Antare: Inner Worlds
SAMBUDDHA CHAKRBARTI

Teaching the Wife: Miss Gilby, the
English Women and the Antahpur
SHAMPA ROY

Goddesses, Women, and the Clutch of
Metaphors in Ghare Baire
SASWATI SENGUPTA

Beyond the intricate Web of Words: An Essay on
Tagore’s Ghare Baire
SHIRSHENDU CHAKRABARTI

WORLD/BAIRE

Contesting Modernities: The Two Men in Ghare Baire
SHARMILA PURKAYASTHA

The Peasant in Ghare Baire
SUMANTA BANERJEE

Understanding Panchu: Swadeshi, Ghare Baire, and
The Lower-Caste Peasants of Eastern Bengal
SEKHAR BANDYOPADHYAY

Mirjan from the Margins
SASWATI SENGUPTA, SHAMPA ROY,
SHARMILA PURKAYASTHA

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Index