期刊名称：Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities
电子版ISSN：0975-2935
出版年度：2010
卷号：2
期号：2
页码：213-216
出版社：Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities
摘要：Saborna Roychowdhury's debut novel The Distancetells a story of a 21stcenturywoman caught up in a series of cultural networks, starting with those of traditional Bengali society, through the political demands (discontents) of certainsectionsof the society,through diasporicexperiences in Canadaand finally back into the 'third world' motherland only to realize an agonized selfhood. This type of theme with the basic structure of the emancipation and awakening of a woman is not new literature written in English or in Bengali or in other languages. We can trace this type back to Ibsen's A Doll's House. What is new about the novel is Roychowdhury's exceptionally reticent telling of a woman's tale through afirst person voice, which captivates readers and leads them through certain unexplored areas of our existence in postglobal West Bengal.In other words, she tells a complex story in very simple and homely manner,and readers need not know (postcolonial) theories to appreciate it
