A notable contribution on Tagore’s vision of womanhood This book theorizes the continuous reconfigurations—‘making’ and ‘unmaking’—of female subjectivity in Tagore’s life, his times, and his works. This transhistorical approach in the book makes gender formations and discourses of the past relevant and necessary to the understanding of postmodern gender issues and ideologies. A unique feature of this compilation is ...
Gendering the Nation: Identity Politics and the English Comic Theatre of the Long Eighteenth Century
In the context of exploring the gender-culture interface in the Britain of the past, the volume examines the role of the comic theatre in Britain during the eighteenth century in an attempt to explore nation-building. It studies the effect of the cultural phenomenon of sentimentality on the English comic stage in conceptualising gendered identities for a people who saw themselves as a polite, genteel nation. It studies some of the very popular comic plays of the ...
