Critical Bibliography for A Golden Age by Tahmima Anam
The book explores a lot of topics and handles alot of really heavy themes. War, motherhood, love, sacrifice. A really huge one though is a woman's place in war and motherhood during war. This is a list of academic papers that analyze the same topic. Enjoy!
Works Cited
Halim Chowdhury, Elora. “War, Healing, and Trauma: Reading the Feminine Aesthetics and Politics in Rubaiyat Hossain’s Meherjaan.” Feminist Formations, vol. 28, no. 3, 2016, pp. 27-45. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26776835?seq=1. Accessed 17 November 2025.
Kapur, Deepali. “Women and War: A Critical Study of Violence on Women in Tahmima Anam’s A Golden Age.” Dialog, no. 33, 2018, pp. 1-11. Docslib, https://docslib.org/doc/12968585/women-and-war-a-critical-study-of-violence-on-women-in-tahmima-anam-s-a-golden-age-deepali-kapur. Accessed 17 November 2025.
Khan, Samimuddin. “Contribution of Women in the Formation of Bangladesh: A Critical Appraisal on Tahmima Anam’s novels A Golden Age and The Good Muslim.” Akademos, vol. II, no. 1, 2022, pp. 93-100. Google Scholar, chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://journal.skbu.ac.in/published/paper_full_text/149041649687605.pdf?v=1650883120. Accessed 4 December 2025.
Lauret-Taft, Sabine. ““You’re Just a Housewife. What on Earth Could You Possibly Do?”: The History of the Bangladesh War of Independence Told by Women in Tahmima Anam’s A Golden Age.” Commonwealth Essays and Studies, vol. 43.1, 2020, pp. 1-14. Open Edition Journals, https://journals.openedition.org/ces/4107. Accessed 4 December 2025.
Samdani, Ruzana Jamil. A Critical Survey of Bangladeshi Fiction in English. Dissertation. 23 August 2009, Dhaka, Bangladesh. EWE Institutional Repository, http://103.133.167.11:8080/handle/123456789/4110. Accessed 04 December 2025.
