Modernity, Gender and Political Allegory in ‘Third World Literature’

This paper explores the critical theoretical question: can there be a non western modernity? Through a textual analysis of a Bengali short story Streer Patra [A Wife’s Letter], the ambivalent nature of the female protagonist's modern selfhood is identified. A feminist reading of the text shows how t...

The International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences: Annual Review

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