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Condizione: New. pp. 349.

Condizione: New. pp. 349.

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Pbk. As the monsoon rains wash over the city of Kolkata four women sit and read and talk in the kitchen of Kailash the old mansion of the Chattopadhyays where Uma comes to live after her marriage in the summer of 1962 Her husband?s silence about his mother and the childhood tragedy that beckons him from the shadowy landing of Kailash the embroidered handkerchiefs in an old soap box in her father-in-law?s room and the presence of the old green-eyed Pishi intrigue Uma But it is only as she begins to read aloud the traditional Chandimangal composed by her husband?s grandfather to celebrate the goddess that the smothered stories begin to emergeThe novel weaves in the history of the militant goddess recast as wife the Portuguese in Bengal the rise of print and the making of memories from the swadeshi movement to the turbulent sixties in Bengal as Uma discovers that the foundation of Kailash is not only very deep but also camouflages the stench of death 300 pp.…

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Soft cover. Condizione: New. Contents: Acknowledgements. Notes on contributors. 1. Introduction. 2. The role of Tagore's literature/Niharranjan Ray. Home/Ghare: 3. Andare Antare: Inner worlds/Sambuddha Chakrabarti. 4. Teaching the wife: Miss Gilby, the English women, and the Antahpur/Shampa Roy. 5. Goddesses, women and the clutch of metaphors in Ghare Baire/Saswati Sengupta. 6. Beyond the intricate web of words: an essay on Tagore's Ghare Baire/Shirshendu Chakrabarti. World/Baire: 7. Contesting modernities: the two men in Ghare/Baire/Sharmila Purkayastha. 8. The peasant in Ghare Baire/Sumanta Banerjee. 9. Understanding Panchu: Swadeshi, Ghare Baire, and the lower-caste peasants of Eastern Bengal/Sekhar Bandyopadhyay. 10. Mirjan from the margins/Saswati Sengupta, Shampa Roy and Sharmila Purkayastha. Select bibliography. Index. "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 recognise 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.". …

Condizione: New. pp. xii + 207.

Condizione: New. pp. xii + 207 1st Published.

Condizione: New. The monsoon rains wash over the city of Kolkata while four women sit and read and talk in the kitchen of Kailash, the old mansion of the Chattopadhyays where Uma comes to live after her marriage in the summer of 1962. It is a place of mystery to Uma. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 124 x 23. Weight in Grams: 328. . 2013. paperback. . . . .…

Condizione: As New. Unread book in perfect condition. Chattopadhyay, Biplab (illustratore).

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Condizione: New. pp. xii + 207 Acknowledgements.

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