Sultana's Dream. by. Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain, Durga Bai (Illustrations) · Rating details · 1, ratings · reviews. The female narrator of Sultana’s Dream wanders into a dream city that shuns war and violence. In this utopian world, women rule and men are content with their places in the kitchen. The queen of this kingdom explains /5. Sultana’s Dream By Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain my name). OFirst published in The Indian Ladies’ Magazine, Madras, ne evening I was lounging in an easy chair in my bedroom and thinking lazily of the condition of Indian womanhood. I am not sure whether I dozed off or not. But, as far as I remember, I was wide awake. I saw the. “Sultana’s Dream” is a short science fiction story by Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain, also known as Rokeya Begum, written in First published in Indian Ladies’ Magazine and later republished in book format in , the story began as an exercise for Rokeya to show her husband her mastery of English.
Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain's Year-Old Feminist Utopia. Since I first read Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain's short story, "Sultana's Dream: A Feminist Utopia" many years ago, I find that it is one text to which I continually return year after year. Hossain was a writer and reporter born in present-day Bangladesh who focused particularly on. Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain, considered to be India's first Bengali Muslim Feminist, challenged the social status quo of her time and ridiculed outmoded gender practices while preaching the relevance of equality, women's education and freedom. Her feminist utopian story 'Sultana's Dream' attempted to make role reversals showing men as the inferior sex and questioned the violence and. Sultana's Dream, first published in in a Madras English newspaper, is a witty feminist utopia—a tale of reverse purdah that posits a world in which men are confined indoors and women have taken over the public sphere, ending a war nonviolently and restoring health and beauty to the world. "The Secluded Ones" is a selection of short.
Rokeya Hossain wrote Sultana's Dream at the urging of her husband who was quite forward-thinking (for an Asian male in the early part of the last century!) and who believed that by writing, she would be able to perfect her English skills. The Dream is brilliantly simple and clearly written. Sultana's Dream by Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain ( - ) Sultana's Dream was originally published in The Indian Ladies' Magazine, Madras, , in www.doorway.ru edition is transcribed from Sultana's dream; and Padmarag: two feminist utopias by Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain; translated with an introduction by Barnita Bagchi. The female narrator of Sultana’s Dream wanders into a dream city that shuns war and violence. In this utopian world, women rule and men are content with their places in the kitchen. The queen of this kingdom explains how women won and kept their peace against men and their war-like ways.
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