Motichur: Sultana's Dream and Other Writings of Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain

by Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain, Prantosh Bandyopadhyay, Ratri Roy

A fiery proponent of the independence of women, Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain (1880-1932) was denied formal education, but emerged as a leading thinker and writer of her time and founded a school for girls. Set against the backdrop of surging nationalism and reform in the twentieth-century Bengal, this selection of writings by Rokeya captures the true spirit of a South Asian proto-feminist who is every bit as radical as her contemporaries-Virginia Woolf...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199450374
• ISBN13: 9780199450374
• Release Date: September 2014
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.3"