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A Poet Apart
An introduction to the work, artistic development, and literary world of Jibanananda Das, one of the most quoted poets in both Bangladesh and West Bengal. From the 1930s came the rhapsodic sonnet cycle posthumously published under the title of Bengal the Beautiful, and from the 1940s, poetry that reflected his struggle with the problems of a world at war.
The Slaying of Meghanada
Datte's deft intermingling of western and eastern literary traditions brought about a sea change in South Asian literature. His masterpiece is now accessible to readers of English in this translation, complete with introduction, notes and a glossary.
It Rained All Night
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Barisal and Beyond
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The Unhappy Consciousness
This study argues that the Bengali novelist Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay produced some of the most searching critical reflections on modernity in colonial India. It rejects assumptions that Bankim was a conservative, claiming that his art must be seen in a different, historical context.
Intermediate Bangla
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Grace and Mercy in Her Wild Hair
Ramprasad Sen, a great lover of Kali Ma, the Hindu goddess, wrote these pieces in her honor. Contemporary translations are full of devotion and vitality. --Hohm Press.
Bengal the Beautiful
The first English translation of a collection discovered in an exercise-book twenty years after Das's untimely death.
Meyebela
This groundbreaking book throws open a window on a world unknown to most Westerners. Taslima Nasrin revisits her early years — from her auspicious birth on a Muslim holy day to the threshold of womanhood at fourteen — in a small rural village during the years East Pakistan became Bangladesh. Set against the background of the fight for independence, Nasrin’s earliest memories alternate between scenes of violence and flight and images of innocent pleasures of childhood in her extended family. A precocious child, Nasrin’s acute awareness of the injustice and suffering endured by her mother and other Muslim women cause her to turn from the Koran in early adolescence, and to begin a journ...
