Trayee Sinha

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Assistant Professor at Diamond Harbour Women's University

Maryse Condé, born in 1937 in Guadeloupe, a talented novelist with diverse literary skills, writes on various issues focusing on the African diaspora often shaped through her personal experiences—the sense of dislocation, legacies of slavery, and above all, the evils of colonialism. Diasporic dislocation is a central theme in Condé’s writing, and s...

The diversity of gender identities has been an issue of debate and discussion to clear the space of multiple voices. Sensitization has been a practice done across cultures in various academic and non-academic institutions to let people know about various identities who cannot simply be addressed as ‘cis male’, ‘cis female’, ‘trans man’, ‘trans woma...

Gender/sex divide has always been the part and parcel of any discourse. The problematics of identity is built around male as superior and female as inferior beings. The changing scenario of the universe defines human beings in terms of neoliberalism, globalization, deconstruction of ideas and images, and, above all the way of interpreting everythin...

Colin Barnes and G. Mercer define disability as the consequence of a societal structure that inadequately accommodates individuals with physical impairments, resulting in their exclusion from mainstream social engagement due to limitations or barriers in activities. The formation of disability studies in the present-day society is mainly built up w...

This paper attempts to explore Indira Debi Choudhurani and her works. 19th century Bengal is remarkable for many significant changes including women's creative capability. Indira Debi, apart from her identity as a member of Tagore family, had creative potential to explore her capacity, to establish her individual identity. This article seeks justif...

This article attempts to explore Kadambari Debi, the less explored woman of Tagore family.

This paper attempts to explore Kadambari Debi as one of the less discussed women of the Tagore family. She was more popular as Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore's creative muse than Jyotirindranath's wife. The article captures some of the significant incidents of her life, her influence on Rabindranath , her relationship to the members of Tagore f...

Feminist literary history has explored the untold stories of women in different spheres. Colonial Bengal witnessed the rise of a class of women who were culturally, intellectually nourished and educated and they took up the challenges posed by the orthodox society and went on to fulfill their wishes, nevertheless. They began their journey into the...

Literature reflects society in various ways. Displacement implies crisis of identity. The history of colonialism has occupied a large space in portraying the displacement of individuals across cultures. It has left a wound in everybody’s heart since driving an individual away from his/her native land is synonymous to deprive him/her of the right to...

Women's Education has always been a central issue of discussion in any society. It is the patriarchal social structure which has subjugated the status of women and it is one of the challenging tasks to question the norms to build up a comfort zone where women would get the opportunity not only to read and write but also to express them as well. Thi...

As pointed out by environmentalists on one hand and humanists on the other, the world is in a state of flux. With the change of concepts, ideas and attitudes one could observe the change in relations and globalization is a significant factor behind this. The instincts of the living beings are guided by different layers of consciousness. As pointed...

This article attempts to discuss women's writing in colonial Bengal with special reference to the journal Probasi. The article examines the politics of gender prevalent during those times and also attempts to explore how women used to write on diverse range of subjects which made them remarkable.

This chapter attempts to explore the politics of colonization addressing it from the centre-margin perspective. The idea of women's association with witch and bitch has been an ever present theme in literature. Slave women's narratives have always explored their exploitation by their masters, especially male. I, Tituba Black Witch of Salem is Marys...

Engendering the Nation and the Self examines Shashi Deshpande's selected works from a postcolonial feminist perspective. This book aims to identify the women protagonists of Shashi Deshpande to catch them at the quintessential moments of their lives. Such moments are known to every woman in the heteronormative system. Anxiety, dilemma and all other...

This article attempts to discuss the narrative of women during COVID-19. The article shows how women had faced and are still facing the added risk factors of the pandemic.

This article attempts to explore the selected plays of women playwrights to know about their creative capability and how those texts work as social documents to address various dominant issues.

The chapter attempts to explore a woman's search for her home. Since the primary cause of women's migration is marriage this chapter shows how the protagonist of the novel Brick Lane migrates to another country and through various experiences she is trying to get the essence and feeling of true home.

This article attempts to explore how the bratas are linked to women's domestic life and how it develops their agency through the observation of such bratas. The construction of domesticity and agency of women through religious rituals are the two important explorations of this chapter.

This article aims to focus on Sister Nivedita and her philosophy of life in the context of making modern Indian women. The concept of modernity has been explained by different people at different times. Nivedita came to India to know the country and her women in relation to her discipleship to Swami Vivekananda. The article focuses on the role of S...

This chapter aims to discuss the violence and oppression of women in selected Indian films

The chapter attempts to find out how women played their roles as warriors and established their own identities. Apart from their domestic roles how they have taken part as warriors to change the course of history. This chapter discusses about selected women warriors and their potentials which have been written down in the pages of history.

This article attempts to explain women's reading of the panchalis. Apart from its ritualistic significance the article attempts to explore the politics of gender through the analysis of the panchalis. How those panchalis make women more close to domesticity and rituals the article also attempts to explore that.

This chapter attempts to explore the dilemma of queer identities and the society's attitude towards them through the analysis of selected novels. The article intends to focus the queer identities and their oppression in the Indian context.

This article attempts to explore multiculturalism in various parts of Bengal.

This chapter shows how fashion and advertisement still thrive on and and celebrate the cultural stereotypes of 'masculinity' and 'femininity'. In focuses on international men's fashion that has recently concentrated on the lumberjack aesthetic which is considered to be one of the significant changes in the style statement of men - they have formed...

This article attempts to discuss the poetry of three women poets- Maya Angelou, Margaret Atwood and Carol Ann Duffy to trace the mode of transfiguration of women's thoughts, desires and attitudes. The poets mentioned here dared to question the myth of the traditionally accepted feelings and roles of women. The article will concentrate on the select...

This chapter attempts to explore the heroines of the short stories of Rabindranath Tagore. The article shows how women could transform their roles from meek submissive wives and daughters to transgressive individuals who can challenge patriarchy in their own ways. The article explores the changing role of Tagore's women from their eternal struggle...

Literature constitutes the part and parcel of society. It works as a mirror in which the human beings could see the reflection of their lives. Identity construction is one of the significant issues in literature. Without identity construction one cannot survive. Our society is made of paradoxes. The world is in a state of flux and we are going thro...

This chapter attempts to explore the dilemma of women's identity in a patriarchal world. The article also intends to examine women's various attempts to find their identity through the analysis of two selected Indian English novels written by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni and Anita Nair.

This article attempts to explore feminisms' search for identity through the study of Shashi Deshpande's selected women protagonists.

Virginia Woolf, while defining women's place in the globally prevalent patriarchal set up, voices the sentiments of millions of her sisters. She bemoans the unenviable position of women in these words: "A very queer, composite being thus emerges. Imaginatively she is of the highest importance; practically she is completely insignificant. She provid...

This article attempts to explore the history of women's writing and women's struggle to enter into the literary world which has always been dominated by men. The article also attempts to take up Elaine Showalter's views on women's writing and the further elaborations to contextualize women's writing.

This chapter attempts to explore the changing role of women from homemakers to emancipators through the reading of some of the selected texts of Shashi Deshpande. Indian writing in English has long been attempting to explore women's issues in various ways and the writers' contribution to this are immense. Shashi Deshpande catches those women at the...

This chapter attempts to explore the issue of women's visibility and /or invisibility through the analysis of two texts - Umrao Jan Ada and Amar Katha O Onanyo Rachana written by Mirza Mohammad Hadi Ruswa and Binodini Dasi. The first one a biography and the second one an autobiography of two women who were socially excluded as outcasts managed to e...

This article attempts to explore how women can build up her own home as well as world. Home has most of the times been used as a political place where women are confined and they were not even allowed to step outside home. The article focuses on the postcolonial phase of Indian English writing and how that explores the private space of women to fin...