![]() ![]() ![]() The works chosen for analysis are short stories and novels in English translation, written between 18. This dissertation is the end product of research into the prose fiction of the Bengali writer, Rabindranath Tagore, who is best known for his poetry. The ‘private’ and even the ‘libidinal’ have a dialectical relationship with the ‘public’, and, therefore, with the ‘political’ in these novels. ![]() These texts are a testimony of how the overtly ‘political’ issues get entwined with the act of 'self fashioning' and how the ‘troubled’ nature of the male ‘self’ of the colonized ‘subjects’ makes its mark on the man-woman relationship. My contention is that in these three novels the act of 'fashioning' (‘recovering’) a ‘self’ during the period of colonial subjugation is a very important motif as it runs through the twists and turns of the plots of the novels. ![]() The ‘colonial’ brand of modernity was largely responsible for the changing equations between the ‘home’ and the ‘world’. My primary focus would be the portrayal of Tagore’s ‘women’ in his three 'political' novels, Gora (1909), Ghare Baire (1916) and Char Adhyay (1934). In my paper I have tried to unravel the close and intricate relationship between the project of ‘nation building’ and the reformation-project of women in a ‘new age’ as it gets recorded in Tagore’ novels. ![]()
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