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Rokeya Sakhawat Hosain's Gyanphal and Muktiphal: A Critique of the Iconography of the Nation-as-Mother

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  • Kalyani Dutta

    (Indraprastha College, University of Delhi, Delhi 110 007)

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Our focus is more specifically textual as we attempt a recovery and celebration of early feminist writings. We are introduced to two allegorical fables by the early-20th-century Bengali educa tionist and writer, Rokeya Sakhawat Hosain. Hosain's stories are feminist critiques of anti- colonial nationalism, which are still relevant and continue to delight with their irony and pene trating intelligence. In these two stories we find the ideal and the weak mother of the nation dealt with allegorically, the polemical purpose being to advocate the education of women in the interests of building a strong society and nation.

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  • Kalyani Dutta, 2000. "Rokeya Sakhawat Hosain's Gyanphal and Muktiphal: A Critique of the Iconography of the Nation-as-Mother," Indian Journal of Gender Studies, Centre for Women's Development Studies, vol. 7(2), pages 203-216, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:indgen:v:7:y:2000:i:2:p:203-216
    DOI: 10.1177/097152150000700204
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