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Rokeya English Analysis

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Rokeya’s English Writings: Relevance to Women Education The following discussion demonstrates a detailed analysis and logical arguments with references to Rokeya’s three English pieces— Sultana’s Dream, “God Gives, Man Robs” and “Educational Ideals for the Modern Indian Girl” to explore the above sub-title.: Sultana’s Dream Rokeya composed Sultana 's Dream in 1905 for examining her proficiency in English and her husband persuaded her to publish it in the Madras-based English language periodical “The Indian Ladies Magazine.” Though it was well-received in that community, but Sultana’s Dream was “unavailable to the majority of Indian womanhood among whom only the very privileged could read and write in English, it was still popular enough among its high caste women readers to emerge in book form in 1908 (qtd in Lakhi 2).” About twenty five years after its publication, Rokeya recalled everything behind writing and producing Sultana’s Dream: My adorable late husband was on a tour; I was totally alone in the house and wrote something to pass my time. After coming back, he asked me what I was doing during those two days. In reply to his query, I showed him the draft of ‘Sultana’s Dream’. …show more content…

She compares a person who relinquishes her own cultural belonging and houses elements of different cultures within herself with a disfigured, strange animal (Hossain 2006 [1931]: 249). Rokeya (Hossain 2006 [1931]: 494–95)

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