About the Book: Rabindranath Tagore and the Feminine: A Journey in Translations
This book presents a range of Rabindranath Tagores creative works, including
translations of short stories, essays, poems, memoirs, songs and plays from his
vast corpus to show his conception of the feminine and gender identity that are
relevant even today.
The editor establishes the search for Tagores engagement with the feminine as
subject and agency, character and voice, philosophy and politics in this book.
There is rich cultural interplay as Tagore muses over the contrasting social
position of women in the East and the West. He relies on Indian traditions to
understand them in the