Tagore Heroines: Assessing the Portraits of Gender Orientation – New Edition

Bina Biswas’s Tagore’s Heroines: Assessing the Portraits of Gender Orientation is a book that does not limit itself only to a feminist reading of Rabindranath Tagore’s works but with its sweetness and light – it magnifies the cultural complexity from where Tagore sketched his female characters.
It is in this culture where Tagore found (or perhaps wanted to project) a subversive change in the lives of women, and the author of this book has aptly focused her research on this particular aspect where the creative consciousness of an era cannot but be influenced by the social discourse of that particular time. Tagore was not an exception. But what was truly exceptional about him is that he acknowledged the influence and let his pen perform something truly extraordinary for his time. Bengal was waking up. Just like the other giants of his family, Tagore had to take part in the phenomenon.