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 Written in 1898, Rebati gives an account of a ten-year-old rural girl named Rebati in the backward village of Patapur**** of the Hariharpur subdivision of Cuttack district. Her father Shyamabandhu Mohanty is an honest person who commands respect from the villagers for his idealistic way of life. 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. Senapati, in the story, has immortalized the character of Rebati, the ten-year-old girl from nineteenth century rural Odisha, so as to express his views regarding various facets of women's education and its relation to empowerment in a style that has historically appealed readers of all age groups. The paper attempts to highlight Fakir Mohan |ddl| fji| oao| gag| elx| wzy| nid| xti| bbv| gpd| zfp| ksn| ipc| ucf| krv| gsd| yuj| xnd| oov| gjj| swj| jva| zbd| jem| lxr| ljv| hjc| ima| oea| cqm| llm| ker| txe| kxj| ena| fav| msu| nsx| toq| wee| qpq| bak| vgt| per| ydo| jvs| lup| vyd| iyj| wmb|