Revisiting Rabindranath Tagore's the Home and the World
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3753087 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Cielo G Festino, Cielo Festino (0000-0003-2862-0554, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 65-75 |
| Publication date | 2011-08-30 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Aletria Revista de Estudos de Literatura (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1679-3749 • E-ISSN: 2317-2096 |
| Publisher | Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais - Pro-Reitoria de Pesquisa (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.17851/2317-2096.21.2.65-75 |
| OpenAlex | W1748546589 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
The aim of this article is to make a critical reading of the novella The Home and the World (1915), by Rabindranath Tagore, focusing on the emancipation of Bengal and the new role of women at the beginning of the twentieth century during the Swadeshi movement: the boycott to English goods to back up Indian industry after the arbitrary division of Bengal by Lord Curzon (1905). This discussion is based on Tagore's book on Nationalism (1917) as well as Walter Benjamin's considerations on allegory (1928
Allegory · Art · BENGAL · Boycott · Emancipation · Literature · Nationalism · Novella · Political science · Politics · Reading (process · Sociology · Gender Studies · History · Indian History and Philosophy · Law · South Asian Cinema and Culture · Walter Benjamin Studies Compilation
| Citations per year | 0.4 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2021 - 2023 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |