The novel A golden Age written by Tahmima Anam. This novel is about women role in Bangladeshi liberation war. Anam gets inspired from her family. Her Grandfather was an freedom fighter. Tahmima also researched the war which covered the central part of her post graduation. Rehana is protagonist in this novel.
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WOMEN ROLE IN
1971
A Golden Age
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Freedom, you are
an arbour in the garden, the koel’s song,
glistening leaves on banyan trees,
my notebook of poetry, to scribble as I please.
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Tahmima Anam
Inspired by her Grandmother and
parents
Father Mahfuz Anam was a freedom
fighter in Bangladeshi Liberation War.
Tahmima also researched the war which
covered the central part of her post
graduation.
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"We had no inkling that we were going to war,"
Shaheen Anam says. "But we thought if we
demonstrate, if we protest, if we have rallies ... we
are going to be able to convince them. So every
day we were out in the street, we were talking,
we were singing, we were having meetings, and it
was very, very exciting."
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• Characteristics
An Ordinary Women
Revolutionary Women
Sacrificing
Carrying Women
A mediocre hero
More than blind motherhood or Emotional
womanhood
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REHANA HAQUE
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Post modern formulation
An epitome of revolution
Marxism and unflinching enthusiasm
for service to humanity
Identity Crisis
Works in refuge camp
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SHEHEREZADE HAQUE MAYA
(REHANA’S DAUGHTER)
Maya is a woman freedom fighter who reports in the
refugees camps from Kolkata (Anam 144)
She and her daughter, Maya, collect old clothes for
making blankets and kathas for the freedom fighter
in winter season. (Anam, A Golden Age)
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Sharmeen: Maya's Friend
• Raped In The War
• Represent Birangonas
Most of the girls were captured from Dhaka University and private homes. Sharmeen is a
student of Dhaka University and Maya’s friend who was also raped in the war. She was
pregnant and died in the hospital (Anam 140-141).
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Widowed and a devout Muslim
Mentally depressed
She thought “war was a sin, the
country splitting”
SILVI CHOWDHURY
(MRS.CHOWDHURY'SDAUGHTERANDALOVE
INTERESTOFSOHAIL'S)
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OTHER CHARACTERS
Mrs. Chowdhury >Rehana's friend and neighbour
Mrs. Sengupta>Rehana's Hindu tenants at Shona
Mrs.Rahman and Mrs.Akram>Rehanas neighbours
and fellow 'sewing sisters
Parveen Haque> Rehana’s sister-in-law
Sultana > Maya’s friend
