Download Chandalika-Rabindranath Tagore APK latest version Free for Android
Version | 1.0 |
Update | 8 years ago |
Size | 938k |
Developer | Atmajaa |
Category | Apps, Books & Reference |
Package Name | com.atmajaa.chandalika.AOVSZCBUCZASQDFVS |
OS | 2.1 and up |
Chandalika-Rabindranath Tagore APPLICATION description
Much has been said about the way Tagore views his women in his poems, essays, novels and drama. Yet it is the dance dramas of Tagore, a genre quite unique in his time and milieu, which portray the
radical nature of Tagore’s conception of women and the maturation of their selfhood. The dance dramas illustrate Tagore’s bold and perceptive experimentation with various literary forms and
techniques and the radical nature of his ideological orientation. Among the dance dramas of Tagore, Chandalika has a special place as it foregrounds the theme of female desire in an untouchable girl,
a tabooed subject in his times, indeed even now in Bengali writings. This paper tries to show how Tagore uses the nuances of the dance form to showcase the intersections of caste, class and gender as
well as the evolution of selfhood in Prakriti, the Chandal girl.
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