Critical Lives of Rabindranath Tagore
Key information
- Date
- Time
-
5:00 pm to 6:00 pm
- Venue
- Paul Webley Wing (Senate House)
- Room
- Wolfson Lecture Theatre
About this event
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED
CANCELLED
Bashabi Fraser
Abstract
Polymath Rabindranath Tagore was the first non- European to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, in 1913. But Tagore was much more than a writer. Through his poems, novels, short stories, poetic songs, dance-dramas and paintings, he transformed Bengali literature and Indian art. In this timely reappraisal of Tagore’s life and work, Bashabi Fraser assesses Tagore’s many activities and shows how he embodied the modern consciousness of India. She examines his ties to his upbringing in Bengal, his role in Indian politics and his interests in international relationships.
Biography
Bashabi Fraser is an academic, poet and the Co-founder and Director of the Scottish Centre of Tagore Studies (SCOTS). Her most recent publications include Scottish Orientalism and the Bengal Renaissance: The Continuum of Ideas (2017) and Rabindranath Tagore’s Global Vision (2015). Shelives in Edinburgh.
Organiser: SOAS South Asia Institute
Contact email: ssai@soas.ac.uk
Contact Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4390