Similarities and Differences in Postcolonial Bengali Women's Writing: The Case of Mahasweta Debi and Mallika Sengupta
Similarities and Differneces in Postcolonial Bengali Women's Writing: The Case of Mahasweta Debi and Mallika Sengupta

Summary/Abstract: The emancipation of women has become a strong critical discourse in Bengali literature since the 19th century. Only since the second hald of the 20th century, however, have female writers markedly stepped out of the shadow of their male collegues, and the writings on women become more and more often articulated by women themselves. In this article I focus on particular concepts of feminity in selected texts of two outstanding writers of different generations, a prose writer, and a woman poet: Mahasweta Debi (b. 1926) and Mallika Sengupta (1960-2011). (...)

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