REVISITING RABINDRANATH TAGORE’S THE HOME AND THE WORLD REVISITANDO A CASA E O MUNDO, DE RABINDRANATH TAGORE
The aim of this article is to make a critical reading of thenovella The Home and the World (1915), by RabindranathTagore, focusing on the emancipation of Bengal and the newrole of women at the beginning of the twentieth century duringthe Swadeshi movement: the boycott to English goods to backup Indi...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
2011-08-01
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| Series: | Aletria: Revista de Estudos de Literatura |
| Online Access: | http://www.periodicos.letras.ufmg.br/index.php/aletria/article/view/2209 |
| Summary: | The aim of this article is to make a critical reading of thenovella The Home and the World (1915), by RabindranathTagore, focusing on the emancipation of Bengal and the newrole of women at the beginning of the twentieth century duringthe Swadeshi movement: the boycott to English goods to backup Indian industry after the arbitrary division of Bengal byLord Curzon (1905). This discussion is based on Tagore’s book onNationalism (1917) as well as Walter Benjamin’s considerationson allegory (1928). |
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| ISSN: | 1679-3749 2317-2096 |