Decolonizing the Feminist Utopia: Interfaith Sisterhood and Anticolonial Feminist Resistance in Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain’s Sultana’s Dream and Padmarag

IF 0.4 4区 社会学 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY Utopian Studies Pub Date : 2022-07-01 DOI:10.5325/utopianstudies.33.2.0240
Samadrita Kuiti
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abstract:This article investigates the ways in which the Western theoretical construct of the feminist utopia has been rearticulated within the field of colonial and postcolonial studies. Particularly, it contends that Rokeya Hossain’s literary works innovatively use the framework of the feminist utopia to reimagine a decolonized nation premised on the ideals of gender equity and religious harmony. Using the scholarship of Barnita Bagchi, Sreejata Paul, Sandeep Banerjee, and Ralph Pordzik, among others, as a springboard, this article situates two of Hossain’s literary works—Sultana’s Dream (1905) and Padmarag (1924)—firmly at the intersections of feminist utopianism and postcolonial studies. By analyzing textual evidence and incorporating historical research on the Indigo Rebellion and the nationalist struggle for independence, the article also establishes ways in which Hossain reconfigures the discourse of nationalism by positioning the subjectivities of colonized women front and center.
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去殖民化的女权主义乌托邦:在Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain的《苏丹娜的梦》和《帕德玛拉格》中不同信仰的姐妹情谊和反殖民的女权主义抵抗
摘要:本文考察了西方女性乌托邦理论建构在殖民地和后殖民研究领域的重新表述方式。特别是,它认为Rokeya Hossain的文学作品创新地利用女权主义乌托邦的框架,重新构想了一个以性别公平和宗教和谐理想为前提的非殖民化国家。本文以巴尼塔·巴格奇、斯雷贾塔·保罗、桑德普·班纳吉和拉尔夫·波尔齐克等人的学术为跳板,将侯赛因的两部文学作品——《苏丹的梦》(1905年)和《帕德马拉格》(1924年)——牢牢地置于女权主义乌托邦主义和后殖民研究的交叉点。通过对文本证据的分析,结合对靛蓝叛乱和民族主义争取独立斗争的历史研究,本文还确立了侯赛因通过将被殖民妇女的主体性定位在前沿和中心来重新建构民族主义话语的方式。
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