Daughters of the Nation: Revisiting Women’s Speculative Writings in Bengal
This paper will look at speculative writings by women in Bengal, both in the colonial and postindependence years, in an attempt to locate the emergence of certain counter-tropes against the dominant trope of the masculinist hero. Taking select writings from Rokeya Racanabali (Complete Works of Ro...
Main Author: | Stella Chitralekha Biswas |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Sarat Centenary College
2021-01-01
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Series: | PostScriptum: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Literary Studies |
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Online Access: | https://postscriptum.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/pS6.iStella.pdf |
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