Published in the Streets of Dhaka
Author | : Kaiser Haq |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Bangladeshi poetry (English) |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Kaiser Haq |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Bangladeshi poetry (English) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Kaiser Haq |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 231 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Bangladeshi poetry (English) |
ISBN | : 9789845061131 |
Author | : Wasi Ahmed |
Publisher | : Comma Press |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2016-09-29 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 190558380X |
Dhaka may be one of the most densely populated cities in the world - noisy, grid-locked, short on public amenities, and blighted with sprawling slums - but, as these stories show, it is also one of the most colourful and chaotically joyful places you could possibly call home. Slum kids and film stars, day-dreaming rich boys, gangsters and former freedom fighters all rub shoulders in these streets, often with Dhaka's famous rickshaws ferrying them to and fro across cultural, economic and ethnic divides. Just like Dhaka itself, these stories thrive on the rich interplay between folk culture and high art; they both cherish and lampoon the city's great tradition of political protest, and they pay tribute to a nation that was borne out of a love of language, one language in particular, Bangla (from which all these stories have been translated).
Author | : Mohammad A. Quayum |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 123 |
Release | : 2024-02-22 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 1003859321 |
This pioneering book brings together several critical essays on Bangladeshi writers in the English language, both at home and abroad, and interviews with a prominent poet and a novelist. The past years have seen various attempts to conceptualize and debate the tradition of Bangladeshi literature in English. English has been in Bengal, which included the geographical territory that constitutes present-day Bangladesh, since the arrival of Ralph Fitch in 1583, and although Bengalis started experimenting creatively in the language in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the tradition suffered significant setbacks in Bangladesh and remained in semi-muzzled state for various political and cultural reasons discussed in the book, before and after independence. However, the tradition has seen a surge since the 1990s, and several writers have emerged on home soil and in places where Bangladeshis have settled, including Australia, Canada, Sweden, the UK, and the USA. The book provides an overview of this tradition and investigates the various thematic and stylistic issues in the works of the selected writers, suggesting the vibrancy and versatility of this evolving national and postcolonial literary stream. The book will be of interest to researchers, academics, and scholars in the field of Bangladeshi writing in English, Southeast Asian literature, Asian literature, diaspora, and literary studies. The chapters in this book were originally published in the Journal of Postcolonial Writing.
Author | : Tarun K. Saint |
Publisher | : Hachette India |
Total Pages | : 454 |
Release | : 2021-09-25 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9391028632 |
From sinister plans of xenocide to speciesists who have taken it upon themselves to Off-World those unlike them; from simulations that memorialize stories obliterated by a book-burning world to the Master Pain Merchant who is always at hand to administer a dose of long-forgotten sensations; from genetically modified Glow Girls who can kill with a touch to a droid detective actively seeking out justice - this stellar volume of cutting-edge science fiction showcases, in prose and verse, 32 of the most powerful voices in the genre from the Indian Subcontinent. Taking forward the formidable task achieved to critical acclaim by the first volume of The Gollancz Book of South Asian Science Fiction, the present collection masterfully transports readers to worlds strangely familiar, raises crucial questions about the place of humans in the universe, and testifies to the astonishing range and power of the imaginative mind.
Author | : Sally Atkinson-Sheppard |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 203 |
Release | : 2019-08-28 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 3030184269 |
This book presents a study of street children’s involvement as workers in Bangladeshi organised crime groups based on a three-year ethnographic study in Dhaka. The book argues that ‘mastaans’ are Bangladeshi mafia groups that operate in a market for crime, violence and social protection. It considers the crimes mastaans commit, the ways they divide labour, and how and why street children become involved in these groups. The book explores how street children are hired by ‘mastaans’, to carry weapons, sell drugs, collect extortion money, commit political violence and conduct contract killings. The book argues that these young people are neither victims nor offenders; they are instead ‘illicit child labourers’, doing what they can to survive on the streets. This book adds to the emerging fields of the sociology of crime and deviance in South Asia and ‘Southern criminology’.
Author | : Jahan Ramazani |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 311 |
Release | : 2017-02-27 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1107090717 |
This Companion is the first to explore postcolonial poetry through regional, historical, political, formal, textual and gender approaches.
Author | : Jeremy Noel-Tod |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 727 |
Release | : 2013-05-23 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0199640254 |
This impressive volume provides over 1,700 biographical entries on poets writing in English from 1910 to the present day, including T. S. Eliot, Dylan Thomas, and Carol Ann Duffy. Authoritative and accessible, it is a must-have for students of English and creative writing, as well as for anyone with an interest in poetry.
Author | : Amritjit Singh |
Publisher | : Lexington Books |
Total Pages | : 401 |
Release | : 2016-06-15 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1498531059 |
Revisiting India’s Partition: New Essays on Memory, Culture, and Politics brings together scholars from across the globe to provide diverse perspectives on the continuing impact of the 1947 division of India on the eve of independence from the British Empire. The Partition caused a million deaths and displaced well over 10 million people. The trauma of brutal violence and displacement still haunts the survivors as well as their children and grandchildren. Nearly 70 years after this cataclysmic event, Revisiting India’s Partition explores the impact of the “Long Partition,” a concept developed by Vazira Zamindar to underscore the ongoing effects of the 1947 Partition upon all South Asian nations. In our collection, we extend and expand Zamindar’s notion of the Long Partition to examine the cultural, political, economic, and psychological impact the Partition continues to have on communities throughout the South Asian diaspora. The nineteen interdisciplinary essays in this book provide a multi-vocal, multi-focal, transnational commentary on the Partition in relation to motifs, communities, and regions in South Asia that have received scant attention in previous scholarship. In their individual essays, contributors offer new engagements on South Asia in relation to several topics, including decolonization and post-colony, economic development and nation-building, cross-border skirmishes and terrorism, and nationalism. This book is dedicated to covering areas beyond Punjab and Bengal and includes analyses of how Sindh and Kashmir, Hyderabad, and more broadly South India, the Northeast, and Burma call for special attention in coming to terms with memory, culture and politics surrounding the Partition.
Author | : France Lasnier |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 92 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Folk art |
ISBN | : |