Utpala Utters: The Woman Question in Jibanananda Das' Malloban.

The article discusses a study examining the Woman Question in the Bengali novel "Malloban" by Jibanananda Das as a critical locus of feminist narratological inquiry. The novel is said to inscribe female defiance as an inscrutable menace and feminine opacity as narrative incoherence. The study theori...

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Publicado en:Women's Studies Vol. 55; no. 2; pp. 180 - 197
Autores principales: Bhattacharyya, Sampriti, Ghosh Sarbadhikary, Mallika
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Taylor & Francis Ltd Mar2026
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Sumario:The article discusses a study examining the Woman Question in the Bengali novel "Malloban" by Jibanananda Das as a critical locus of feminist narratological inquiry. The novel is said to inscribe female defiance as an inscrutable menace and feminine opacity as narrative incoherence. The study theorizes the novel's regulatory narrative scheme as a hermeneutic deception through which the regnant voice of the male author-narrator persuades the reader to accept a gendered epistemology of control.