Table of Contents

Foreword - Fakrur Alam Preface Introduction - Chandrava Chakravarty and Sneha Kar Chaudhuri PART I BEYOND ESSENTIALISM Tagore and Woman: Some Thoughts - Jasodhara Bagchi Shantiniketan: Education for Girls - Uma Das Gupta PART II NATURE AND SPIRITUALITY Gender and the Spiritual Quest in Tagore's Poetry - Mandakranta Bose Rabindranath's Chandalika: Woman as Prakriti and Prakriti in Woman - Malini Bhattacharya PART III REALM OF DOMESTICITY Domestic Space in Tagore's Fiction - Supriya Chaudhuri Tagore's Docile Daughters: Ambivalence in Family Life - Sanjukta Dasgupta Re-reading Rabindranath Tagore's 'Streer Patra' (The Wife's Letter, 1914) in the Light of Epistolary Culture in Colonial India - Nandini Bhattacharya PART IV SELFHOOD AND AGENCY How to Fool Women: Tagore's Tales of Seduction - Tirthankar Bose The Dichotomies of Body and Mind Spaces: The Widows in Chokher Bali and Chaturanga - Chandrava Chakravarty 'Bimala Is What She Is': Re-reading Bimala and Gender (In)justice in Rabindranath's The Home and the World - Dipannita Datta PART V WOMEN IN TRAVEL WRITING The 'Other' Women in Tagore's Travels to Europe - Jayati Gupta Rabindranath Tagore's Travelogues and the Absent Female Voice - Amrit Sen PART VI WOMEN IN OTHER ARTS Gender in Rabindrasangeet - Debashish Raychaudhuri Breaking the Mould: Paintings by Rabindranath Tagore - Tapati Gupta Women in Tagore's Dance-Dramas - Amita Dutt Tagore's New Woman and the Contradictions of Patriarchy: Adapting Char Adhyay as Elar Char Adhyay - Sneha Kar Chaudhuri

About the Author

Chandrava Charkravarty is Professor, Department of English, West Bengal State University; her interests are the complex connections between gender construction, identity and nation-building in various forms of canonical and non-canonical texts. Among her recent books is Gendering the Nation: Identity Politics and the English Stage of the Long Eighteenth Century (2013). Recent articles are 'The "King" in Rabindranath Tagore's Drama', in the Politics and Reception of Rabindranath Tagore's Drama, A. Bhattacharya and M. Renganathan, eds (2015); 'Connecting Hemispheres, Playing with Distance: Rammohan Roy, an Indian Transnationalist', in The Idea of Experience of Distance in the International Enlightenment, Kevin Cope, ed. (forthcoming). Sneha Kar Chaudhuri is Assistant Professor of English, West Bengal State University and Guest Faculty at Department of English, Jadavpur University; formerly Assistant Editor and current Editorial Board member of Neo-Victorian Studies, UK. Her areas of specialization include Neo-Victorian Studies, Victorian literature, postmodern and post-colonial fiction. Her post-doctoral research interests are Adaptation Studies, Gender Studies, Trauma Studies, and popular culture and films.

Reviews

'A rich compilation of essays from stalwarts in the field, revealing how the women in Tagore's varied representations straddle the public/private spheres depicting the myriad moods of the feminine, from the abstract to the concrete, from the empowered to the romantic.' -- Abhijit Sen,