내셔널리즘과 여성문제를 통해서 본 타고르의 『집과 세상』

Nationalism and Female Issue in Tagore’s The Home and the World

This paper examines how Tagore deals with nationalism and female issues like women’s freedom in his novel The Home and the World . His novel shows the negative effects of the spread of Western nationalism in colonial India, while at the same time criticizing patriarchal nationalism against women among independence movement leaders. This research is aimed at taking issue with the problems of nationalism and suggesting that the female creative power of shakti, in the Indian context, opposed Western imperialism and male-dominated oppression. The novel has been misunderstood or under appreciated, especially by Western critics like Gyorgy Lukacs. An accurate understanding of Tagore’s position on nationalism and women in the novel would help appreciate his pursuit of Western ideas and an alternative to a male-dominated world order.