Preface Each of Rabindranath Tagoreâs nine novels, built around the themes of family, community and gender, has at its centre stage a principal female protagonist. The only exception is Gora, where the protagonist is a man named Gourmohan or Gora. We find in Tagoreâs earlier works, child-like girl heroines or naive marginalized women confronted with social/parental antagonism.
Preface<br /> <br /> Each of Rabindranath Tagore’s nine novels, built around the themes of family, community and gender, has at its centre stage a principal female protagonist. The only exception is Gora, where the protagonist is a man named Gourmohan or Gora. We find in Tagore’s earlier works, child-like girl heroines or naive marginalized women confronted with social/parental antagonism. His later novels, written in the third literary epoch, revoke the pattern through intellectually enlightened, mature heroines with greater social authority. As daring fictions of female Bildung...
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