{"title":"The Old Woman and the Tale: Exploring the Intersection of Age and Gender within the Bengali Roopkatha","authors":"Raahi Adhya","doi":"10.1353/mat.2023.a900262","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The Bengali literary genre of the roopkatha, tales collected from regions that now lie in West Bengal and Bangladesh, gained immense popularity during the peak of anticolonial cultural nationalism in Bengal over the turn of the twentieth century. Among its defining characteristics is its association with old women. This article studies the roopkatha's old woman at the three levels of narrative, discourse, and social history to argue that she emerges as a capacious figure who troubles binary understandings of fairy-tale characterization, universalized assumptions about old age, and assumptions about the social roles of old women in South Asia.","PeriodicalId":42276,"journal":{"name":"Marvels & Tales-Journal of Fairy-Tale Studies","volume":"108 1","pages":"105 - 80"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2023-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Marvels & Tales-Journal of Fairy-Tale Studies","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mat.2023.a900262","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"Arts and Humanities","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract:The Bengali literary genre of the roopkatha, tales collected from regions that now lie in West Bengal and Bangladesh, gained immense popularity during the peak of anticolonial cultural nationalism in Bengal over the turn of the twentieth century. Among its defining characteristics is its association with old women. This article studies the roopkatha's old woman at the three levels of narrative, discourse, and social history to argue that she emerges as a capacious figure who troubles binary understandings of fairy-tale characterization, universalized assumptions about old age, and assumptions about the social roles of old women in South Asia.
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Marvels & Tales (ISSN: 1521-4281) was founded in 1987 by Jacques Barchilon at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Originally known as Merveilles & contes, the journal expressed its role as an international forum for folktale and fairy-tale scholarship through its various aliases: Wunder & Märchen, Maravillas & Cuentos, Meraviglie & Racconti, and Marvels & Tales. In 1997, the journal moved to Wayne State University Press and took the definitive title Marvels & Tales: Journal of Fairy-Tale Studies. From the start, Marvels & Tales has served as a central forum for the multidisciplinary study of fairy tales. In its pages, contributors from around the globe have published studies, texts, and translations of fairy-tales from Europe, North America, Asia, and Africa. The Editorial Policy of Marvels & Tales encourages scholarship that introduces new areas of fairy-tale scholarship, as well as research that considers the traditional fairy-tale canon from new perspectives. The journal''s special issues have been particularly popular and have focused on topics such as "Beauty and the Beast," "The Romantic Tale," "Charles Perrault," "Marriage Tests and Marriage Quest in African Oral Literature," "The Italian Tale," and "Angela Carter and the Literary Märchen." Marvels & Tales is published every April and October by Wayne State University Press.
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