Bangladeshi Literature in English

This pioneering book brings together several critical essays on Bangladeshi writers in the English language and interviews with some of the earliest and emerging writers in the tradition, both at home and abroad, and in fictional prose and poetry. The chapters were originally published in the Journal of Postcolonial Writing.

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Mohammad A. Quayum is a full-time researcher and Professor in the College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences at Flinders University, Australia. He taught at universities in Bangladesh, Malaysia, Singapore, and the US before returning to his alma mater, Flinders University, in 2020. He is the author, editor, and translator of numerous books in the areas of American literature, Bengali literature, and Southeast Asian literature.

Md. Mahmudul Hasan is Professor of English and postcolonial literature at International Islamic University Malaysia. He completed a PhD in compartive literature at the University of Portsmouth, did a postdoctoral stint at the University of Heidelberg, and taught in the Department of English at the University of Dhaka. He has published in the fields of feminist, postcolonial, Islamic, South Asian, and Muslim diasporic literatures, as well as Islam and English studies.

Inhalt

Introduction-Bangladeshi literature in English: A thrice born tradition 1. Muslim Bengal writes back: Rokeya's encounter with and representation of Europe 2. Panchayat and colonialism in Humayun Kabir's Men and Rivers 3. "Here I'll stay": Kaiser Haq's poems and the impact of being at home 4. Toxic grace? Tahmima Anam's The Bones of Grace and the pollution trade 5. Beyond national(ist) binaries: The case of Zia Haider Rahman's In the Light of What We Know 6. Introducing a Bangladeshi writer in English: Interview with Kaiser Haq 7. Delving beneath the surface: An interview with Monica Ali