Motichur: Sultana’s Dream and Other Writings of Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain
Price: $33.30 $37.00
Author
Edition
1st. ed.
Publisher
ISBN
0199450374, 9780199450374
Length
xxiv+270p., Illustrations; 22cm.
Subjects
A fiery proponent of the independence of women, Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain (1880-1932) was denied formal education, but emerged as a leading thinker and writer of her time and founded a school for girls. Set against the backdrop of surging nationalism and reform in the twentieth-century Bengal, this selection of writings by Rokeya captures the true spirit of a South Asian proto-feminist who is every bit as radical as her contemporaries-Virginia Woolf and Charlotte ...
