Bangladesh in Anglophone and Vernacular Literature

Cultural Imaginings of a Postcolonial Nation
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-96154-5
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 216 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 453 g

Reihe: Routledge Research on Asian Literature

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.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Iqbal, Asif

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Historische & Regionale Volkskunde

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Prologue

1. Counter-imagining Partition: Passage to East Pakistan in the Bengali Novel

2. “Looking Glass Border” Anglophone Novels: Representing East Pakistan’s Hindu Minority

3. Fracturing Pakistan, Forming Bangladesh: Passive Revolution in the Bengali Novel

4. 1971: A Gendered War?

5. Cross-Border Interventions: 1971 in the Indian English Novel

6. Cosmopolitan Perspectives: The 1971 War in South Asian Diaspora Novels

Epilogue: the Anglophone-Vernacular Divide, a Nation Reimagined, and Worlding of Bangladesh’s Literature

Über Autor(innen)

Asif Iqbal is a Visiting Assistant Professor of English and Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Postcolonial World Literature at Oberlin College, Ohio, USA. He has been published in Transcultural Humanities in South Asia: Critical Essays on Literature and Culture (2022). His articles and reviews have appeared in South Asian Review and South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies. Dr Iqbal is also the recipient of the Bangabandhu Sheikh Rahman Research Award administered by the Subir and Malini Chowdhury Center for Bangladesh Studies at UC Berkeley