| Motichur: Sultana's Dream and Other Writings of Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain Contributor(s): Hossain, Rokeya Sakhawat (Author), Roy, Ratri (Author), Bandyopadhyay, Prantosh (Author) |
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ISBN: 0199450374 ISBN-13: 9780199450374 Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA OUR PRICE: $28.45 Product Type: Paperback Published: September 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | Asian - Indic - Literary Collections | Lgbt - Literary Criticism |
| Dewey: 891.44 |
| LCCN: 2015306797 |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.4" W x 8.3" (0.70 lbs) 240 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Indian - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A fiery proponent of the independence of women, Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain (1880-1932) was denied formal education, but emerged as a leading thinker and writer of her time and founded a school for girls. Set against the backdrop of surging nationalism and reform in the twentieth-century Bengal, this selection of writings by Rokeya captures the true spirit of a South Asian proto-feminist who is every bit as radical as her contemporaries-Virginia Woolf and Charlotte Perkins Gilman. From 'Sultana's Dream', a canonical work of Rokeya, to writings on women's status in a patriarchal set-up, her comments on 'feeble' Bengali society, purdah veil] system, religion, and the idea of a perfect housewife among others, this work will open up a factual, fictional, and fantastical-utopian world, which remained largely unknown and unheard outside Bengal. |