Intimate revelations: conversations among “evil” women in Rokeya’s Padmarag

Rokeya creatively demonstrates in Padmarag (1924) the socially embedded association of women with evil. She brings together a group of women on the premises of Tarini Bhaban in order to explore their psychological terrain, as they share with each other previously untold memories and document their e...

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Main Author:	Hasan, Md. Mahmudul
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Published:	SAGE Publications 2019
Subjects:	HQ1101 Women. Feminism HQ503 The family. Marriage. Home PI Oriental languages and literatures PN0080 Criticism
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spelling	iium-679842019-08-07T02:18:33Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/67984/ Intimate revelations: conversations among “evil” women in Rokeya’s Padmarag Hasan, Md. Mahmudul HQ1101 Women. Feminism HQ503 The family. Marriage. Home PI Oriental languages and literatures PN0080 Criticism Rokeya creatively demonstrates in Padmarag (1924) the socially embedded association of women with evil. She brings together a group of women on the premises of Tarini Bhaban in order to explore their psychological terrain, as they share with each other previously untold memories and document their experiences of patriarchal oppression and domestic abuse. Through their reminiscences and memories, Rokeya lays bare the angst of women in a patriarchal social order that silences and suppresses them. Beyond the premise of sisterhood at Tarini Bhaban, in one way or another, most of these women are considered “evil” in society as a whole. For example, Saudamini is a stepmother with no biological children of her own and is regarded as a dakini (witch) and rakshasi (a female demon). Other women of Tarini Bhaban have received comparable tags from society and experienced similar victimization. Based on the representation of “evil” women in the novel, in this article I will discuss their stories and examine some of the contributing factors to their victimization and characterization as wicked in the context of early twentieth-century Bengal. SAGE Publications 2019 Article NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/67984/1/Intimate%20revelations%20Conversations%20among%20%E2%80%9Cevil%E2%80%9D%20women%20in%20Rokeya%E2%80%99s%20Padmarag_accepted%20version.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/67984/2/acceptance%20letter.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/67984/12/67984_Intimate%20revelations%20Conversations%20among%20evil%20women%20in%20Rokeya%E2%80%99s%20Padmarag_scopus.pdf Hasan, Md. Mahmudul (2019) Intimate revelations: conversations among “evil” women in Rokeya’s Padmarag. Journal of Commonwealth Literature. pp. 1-26. ISSN 0021-9894 E-ISSN 1741-6442 (In Press) https://journals.sagepub.com/home/jcl
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description	Rokeya creatively demonstrates in Padmarag (1924) the socially embedded association of women with evil. She brings together a group of women on the premises of Tarini Bhaban in order to explore their psychological terrain, as they share with each other previously untold memories and document their experiences of patriarchal oppression and domestic abuse. Through their reminiscences and memories, Rokeya lays bare the angst of women in a patriarchal social order that silences and suppresses them. Beyond the premise of sisterhood at Tarini Bhaban, in one way or another, most of these women are considered “evil” in society as a whole. For example, Saudamini is a stepmother with no biological children of her own and is regarded as a dakini (witch) and rakshasi (a female demon). Other women of Tarini Bhaban have received comparable tags from society and experienced similar victimization. Based on the representation of “evil” women in the novel, in this article I will discuss their stories and examine some of the contributing factors to their victimization and characterization as wicked in the context of early twentieth-century Bengal.
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title	Intimate revelations: conversations among “evil” women in Rokeya’s Padmarag
title_short	Intimate revelations: conversations among “evil” women in Rokeya’s Padmarag
title_full	Intimate revelations: conversations among “evil” women in Rokeya’s Padmarag
title_fullStr	Intimate revelations: conversations among “evil” women in Rokeya’s Padmarag
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