Emancipation of Women in Tagore’s The Wife’s Letter

Authors

  • Dr. Sresha Yadav Nee Ghosh Assistant ProfessorIIIT-Naya Raipur, Naya Raipur- 493661, India

Keywords:

Emancipation, liberate, predicament, feminist

Abstract

Rabindranath Tagore’s fictional oeuvre, especially the collection of his short stories, paints a vivid picture of the emancipation of women in the nineteenth-century colonial Bengal. His writings not only voice the pathos and sufferings of the female protagonists but also act as an interface to liberate them from the oppressive social bondage. His women characters’ struggle to break the barriers of patriarchal social conventions is well represented in his short stories. His women characters are intelligent, educated, and at par equal to their male counterparts. They break the conventional set of rules laid by the society and find a way to emancipate from social restrictions. Hence, this paper attempts to explore and analyse, from a feminist perspective, Tagore’s contribution to the liberation of women with reference to his women characters in his short story, The Wife’s Letter.

Author Biography

Dr. Sresha Yadav Nee Ghosh, Assistant ProfessorIIIT-Naya Raipur, Naya Raipur- 493661, India

Dr Sresha Yadav nee Ghosh is an Assistant Professor of English, HSS Discipline, IIIT-NR. Prior to joining IIIT-NR, she was an Assistant Professor at GITAM University, Bangalore. She has qualified UGC-NET and received MHRD IIT Roorkee scholarship assistance during her Ph.D. research. She has published several research articles in edited books and reputed MLA indexed journals. She is a member of Melow-India and ELTAI. She can be reached at sresha85@gmail.com

References

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Tagore, Rabindranath. The Wife’s Letter (Translated from Bengali by Prasenjit Gupta), 2009. Web 15 Feb 2018. https://www.parabaas.com/translation/database/translations /stories/gStreerPatra1.html

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Published

30.04.2018

How to Cite

Dr. Sresha Yadav Nee Ghosh. (2018). Emancipation of Women in Tagore’s The Wife’s Letter. Journal of Teaching and Research in English Literature, 9(2), 16–19. Retrieved from https://journals.eltai.in/index.php/jtrel/article/view/62

Issue

Vol. 9 No. 2 (2018): April

Section

Research Articles

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