
Motichur
Sultana's Dream and Other Writings of Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain
OUP India (Publisher)
Published in December 2015
Book
Paperback/Softback
240 pages
978-0-19-945037-4 (ISBN)
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New Delhi
India
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 142 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
322 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-945037-4 (9780199450374)
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Persons
Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain (author): A fiery proponent of the independence of women, Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain was a leading writer of her time and founded a school for girls.
Ratri Roy (translator) is former Professor and Head, Department of English, Patna University, India.
Prantosh Bandyopadhyay (translator) is a peace actvisit and Rokeya scholar.
Ratri Roy (translator) is former Professor and Head, Department of English, Patna University, India.
Prantosh Bandyopadhyay (translator) is a peace actvisit and Rokeya scholar.
Author
, Writer
, Former Professor/Head, Department of English, Patna University, India
, Peace Activist/Rokeya scholar
Content
Dedication Page of Motichur, Vol. I (1st edn.) ; Dedication Page (2nd edn.) ; An Explanation ; Advertisement ; Introduction by Mushirul Hasan ; Thirst ; The Degradation of Women ; The Inoffensive Bengali ; The Better Half ; The Good Housewife ; The Burkha ; Home, Sweet Home ; Dedication ; Foreword ; Advertisement ; Nur Islam ; The Solar System ; Sultana's Dream ; The Murder of Delicia ; The Fruit of Knowledge ; The Creation of Woman ; Nurse Nellie ; Childcare ; The Fruit of Freedom ; Creation ; About Translators