Niranjan Mondal's A Tale of High and Low Tides
Dalit Literature from Bangla
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
Niranjan Mondal is one of the most prolific writers of Dalit literature in Bangla known for his immersive fictions that root themselves in the lives of people from the Sundarbans, the mangrove forest in east India. This volume of the translation of his novel, A Tale of High and Low Tides (Ujaan Bhatir Kathokata), along with critical essays and an interview of the author, introduces his work to a new readership.
Mondal's writings highlight the unique lived experiences of the inhabitants of the Sundarbans and are meditative explorations of the links between caste and expression, nature and human life, and the 'centre' and the 'margin'. This book creates a dialogue between the body of literature that is visible and that which is not, as well as between biography and literature. Mondal's own views on contemporary life, society, and literatureāboth mainstream and marginalizedāwill help readers understand the relationship between literature and its social context. The volume creates an academic framework within which Mondal's fiction can be read, appreciated and critically analysed.
Part of the Voices from the Margins series, this critical edition will be an important resource for students of literature, comparative literature, modern Indian literature, translation studies, minority studies, Dalit studies, and gender studies. It will also be of interest to those engaged in contemporary Indian/South Asian literary cultures, social sciences, history and sociology.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- List of contributors
- Glossary of Flora and Fauna Mentioned in the Text
- Maps Relating to the Text
- Introduction
- 1. A Tale of High and Low Tides
- 2. Historicizing Marginal Ecology: Roots and Narrative, the Dynamics of the Traditional Fishing Mechanism through the āPopular Prismā of the Sundarbans
- 3. Village Gods and the Dance of Death in the Sundarbans
- 4. The Relentless Tide of History: Human Ecology in A Tale of High and Low Tides
- 5. Interview with Niranjan Mondal
- Index