Gendered Bengali: Expectations and Challenges, in Ashapurna Devi’s ‘Chhayasurya’ and Partha Pratim Chowdhury’s Chhaya Surya [Chhayasurya], and Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay’s Dadar Kirti and Tarun Majumdar’s Dadar Kirti
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2018-03
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Social Trends
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Roy, Sanjay K.
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University of North Bengal
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Ray, A. (2018). Gendered Bengali: Expectations and Challenges, in Ashapurna Devi’s ‘Chhayasurya’ and Partha Pratim Chowdhury’s Chhaya Surya [Chhayasurya], and Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay’s Dadar Kirti and Tarun Majumdar’s Dadar Kirti. Social Trends, 5, 91–113. https://ir.nbu.ac.in/handle/123456789/3534
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The paper offers a comparative study between two filmic ‘adaptations’
from two Bengali texts: (i) Chhaya Surya [Chhayasurya] (1963) adapted by Partha
Pratim Chowdhury from Ashapurna Devi’s short story ‘Chhayasurya’ (1988[?]:
130–139), and (ii) Tarun Majumdar’s Dadar Kirti (1980), ‘adapted’ from the
novella/novel Dadar Kirti by Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay ([1982] 2011: 259–
289). With close textual and filmic references, the paper explores (i) the conceptions
of masculine and feminine and conflations of the two, (ii) artistic expressions
internalizing gender as well as challenging it, (iii) male interactions interpreted by
domestic women, and (iv) women’s interlocution in perspectives on heterosexual
coupling and marriage.
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91 - 113