Isbn: 9788185604503 - harvest song (2 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: New. pp. xi + 373.

pbk. Sabitri Roy?s trilogy Paka Dhaner Gan translated for the first time into English and abridged brings a neglected woman novelist to a wider audience A committed socialist who was critical of the Communist Party and fell foul of its patriarchy and hierarchy Roy tries to show how socialist mores could come to fruition in relationships how young women and men tried to take decisions on their own lives free from the bonds of an oppressive social hierarchyFocusing on the freedom movement the Second World War and the Tebhaga movement the peasants uprising against unjust taxes by the zamindars or landlords when the Communist Party sent many educated young men to the villages the novel provides an epic panorama of rural Bengal of the late 1930s and the 1940s Roy depicts a range of women from the educated and aware Lata and Bhadra to the less educated and more deprived villagers like Debaki and her sisters-in-law the tribal feisty women like Saraswati providing convincing portraits of what women?s lives were likeAs Tanika Sarkar writes in her Foreword Timeless patriarchal strategies of control inflict death on a widow who has sinned by drinking water on the day of the ritual fast without water and a mother suspected of illicit liaison has her baby snatched away from her at the same time the same families and the same milieus witness unexpected female resistance defiance new resources for self-making 388 pp.…