Nabankur : the seedling's tale

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Nabankur : the seedling's tale

Sulekha Sanyal ; tlanslated form the bengali by Gouranga P. Chattopadhyay ; introduction by Himani Bannerji

(Gender culture politics)

Stree, c2001

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Translated for the first time from the Bengali, this astonishingly radical novel is about Chhobi, a gusty, misfit girl from a rural land-owning family, who questions injustice, fights to share the privileges offered to her brother and male cousins, and refuses to see her future as another submissive household drudge. 'Nabankur' means a new seedling, personified by Chhobi, who is growing up in the 1930s and early 1940s in Bengal where anti-colonial struggles against British rule are in full swing. Side by side her political awakening gives rise to thoughts of personal freedom. Moving from the darkness of the interior to light is a recurrent theme in the novel, and Chhobi awakens her selfhood, just as a seedling strains towards the sun.

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  • NCID
    BA61073180
  • ISBN
    • 8185604304
  • Country Code
    ii
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Original Language Code
    ben
  • Place of Publication
    Calcutta
  • Pages/Volumes
    xxiv, 245 p.
  • Size
    22 cm
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