Bangladesh in Anglophone and Vernacular Literature
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Bangladesh in Anglophone and Vernacular Literature

Cultural Imaginings of a Postcolonial Nation

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eBook - ePub

Bangladesh in Anglophone and Vernacular Literature

Cultural Imaginings of a Postcolonial Nation

About this book

This book illuminates individual and collective imaginings of postcolonial Bangladesh. It explores the emergence of Bangladesh as a nation from a variety of perspectives.

The author studies the impact of Muslim nationalism on the subaltern life-worlds of East Bengal during the Partition, religious minorities and their insecurity in East Pakistan, East Pakistan's political insurgencies, the victims of the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War, the Indian stake in the 1971 War, and the cosmopolitan interpretations of the war. The literary and cultural texts that inform this project include contemporary Bengali novels, South Asian Anglophone literature, as well as selected visual media and digital sources. The project's reading of these texts in conjunction with politics and history has interdisciplinary relevance.

This book will be of interest to researchers in South Asian Literature, South Asian History and Culture, World Literatures in English as well as Area Studies, Security Studies, and Political Theory.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2025
eBook ISBN
9781040414903
Topic
Social Sciences
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Endorsement Page
  3. Half Title page
  4. Series Page
  5. Title Page
  6. Copyright Page
  7. Frontispiece
  8. Dedication
  9. Contents
  10. Acknowledgments
  11. Prologue
  12. 1 Counter-imagining Partition: Passage to East Pakistan in the Bengali Novel
  13. 2 “Looking Glass Border” Anglophone Novels: Representing East Pakistan’s Hindu Minority
  14. 3 Fracturing Pakistan, Forming Bangladesh: Passive Revolution in the Bengali Novel
  15. 4 1971: A Gendered War?
  16. 5 Cross-Border Interventions: 1971 in the Indian English Novel
  17. 6 Cosmopolitan Perspectives: The 1971 War in South Asian Diaspora Novels
  18. Epilogue: The Anglophone-Vernacular Debate, a Nation Reimagined, and Worlding of Bangladesh’s Literature
  19. Index