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  title info:
    title: Representation of women in the fiction of Rabindranath Tagore
    sub title: a study of his selected works
  name:
    name part: Iyer, Mangala Bhavani Krishna
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Tagore, Rabindranath
    name part: 1861-1941
  name:
    name part: International Islamic University Malaysia
    name part: Kulliyyah of Islamic Revealed Knowledge and Human Sciences
  genre: Theses, IIUM local
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: my
    place:
      place term: Kuala Lumpur
    publisher: Kulliyyah of Islamic Revealed Knowledge and Human Sciences, International Islamic University Malaysia
    date issued: 2011
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    extent: x, 283 leaves : ill. ; 30cm.
  abstract: This thesis examines selected works of a larger than life literary figure, Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941), with a special focus on his female characters. Works selected for the study are novels Binodini (1903), Gora (1909), The Home and the World (1916) and The Broken Nest (1921), as well as several short stories. A visionary and a social reformist, Tagore, among several other sociocultural, political and religious issues that he addressed in his works, recurrently sought to resort the circumstances of women as mothers, wives and child brides in his fictional writings. As an expression of this, he portrayed all his female characters, especially in the works selected for this study, in a new and convincing style, by consciously and conspicuously moving away from tradition and age-old conventions. Tagore spoke of and felt the need for women to be seen and heard beyond the home. His sympathy for child brides and widows are showcased extensively in many of these narratives. He categorically rejected the traditional concept where women were expected to be confined to the zenana. His passion for freedom was so far and wide that he felt that the liberation and freedom given to men should also be extended to women. He said that women had that natural expression to her, a cadence of restraint in her behaviour, producing poetry of life. She has been an inspiration to man, guiding, often unconsciously, his restless energy into an immense variety of creations in literature, art, music and religion. In the process, justifying the need of women to be liberated from the shackles of home, Tagore rejected all forms of religious extremism and cultural conservatism. This thesis also examines selected Hindu scriptures to examine how the effects of blind conformity to these scriptures had resulted in women being enslaved, bound and bonded by men in the name of social progress and stability. In the thesis I have highlighted how women can be both good at home and at the same time extend …
  note: by Mangala Bhavani Krishna Iyer
  note: Abstracts in English and Arabic.
  note: "A dissertation submitted in fulfilment for the requirement for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (English Literary Studies)."--On t.p.
  note: Thesis (Ph.D.)--International Islamic University Malaysia, 2011.
  note: Includes bibliographic references (leaves 268-283).
  subject:
    geographic code: a-ii---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Tagore, Rabindranath
    topic: Collected works
    temporal: 1861-1941
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Tagore, Rabindranath
      name part: 1861-1941
    topic: Relations with women
  subject:
    topic: Women
    genre: Fiction
    geographic: India
  subject:
    geographic: India
    genre: Fiction
    topic: Social conditions
  classification: PK1727.W6
  identifier: http://studentrepo.iium.edu.my/handle/123456789/6806
  record info:
    record content source: UIAM
    record creation date: 120629
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng