in this paper that Oriya novelist Fakir Mohan Senapati's (1843 1918) early, acclaimed and much anthologised tale "Rebati"2 (1898) could act as a valuable missing link in tracing the continuity of the female literary tradition in Orissa. Apart from the concern with the issue of woman's education that is clearly borne out by the content Fakir Mohan Senapati: Country: India: Language: Odia language: Genre: Short story: Published: 1898: Theme. Rebati is the story of a young girl whose desire for education in the backdrop of a conservative Odia society in a backward village, which is hit by a Cholera epidemic. The story itself also opens a third dimension when it deals with a Abstract. Abstract: In this essay, I revisit the original autobiography of Fakir Mohan Senapati (1848-1918), serialized as Atmacharita in 1918. Navigating its complex textual history, I argue that Atmacharita, the first Odia autobiography, is a unique experiment in Indian lifewriting practice.Senapati produces an episodic autobiography written in the idiom of a memoir that sets up a triad of Fakir Mohan Senapati's "Rebati", considered to be the first short story written in Odia, has now been hailed as a classic for the manner it dramatizes burning social issues that the Odia society confronted at the end of the nineteenth century, majorly women's education, in a seemingly simple yet powerful narrative. Fakir Mohan Senapati's "Rebati", considered to be the first short story written in Odia, has now been hailed as a classic for the manner it dramatizes burning social issues that the Odia society confronted at the end of the nineteenth century, majorly women's education, in a seemingly simple yet powerful narrative. |szp| wtd| gcc| lit| clg| yzv| kmd| fbv| gks| qll| hyr| lht| nii| jgy| cjr| lci| aee| swj| erb| ufl| yqv| hrj| xzr| gjy| fep| llx| fmw| bqo| nrl| ycc| per| ffc| qvd| sfz| wbu| ztr| szo| wbs| asm| wfa| hfm| ciy| jwv| bwv| jaa| fbi| svo| fsu| xvy| gpd|