Critical Discourse in Bangla (Critical Discourses in South Asia)

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This volume forms a part of the Critical Discourses in South Asia series which deals with schools, movements and discursive practices in major South Asian languages. It offers crucial insights into the making of Bengali or Bangla literature and its critical tradition across a century. The book brings together English translation of major writings of influential figures dealing with literary criticism and theory, aesthetic and performative traditions and re-interpretations of primary concepts and categories in Bangla. It presents 32 key texts in literary and cultural studies from Bengal from the middle of the 19th to that of the 20th century, with most of them translated for the first time into English. These seminal essays cover interconnections with socio-historical events in the colonial and post-independence period in Bengal, including the background to the language movement in Bangladesh. They discuss themes such as integrative aesthetic visions; poetic and literary forms; modernism; imagination; power structures and social struggles; ideological values; cultural renovations; and humanism. Comprehensive and authoritative, this volume offers an overview of the history of critical thought in Bangla literature in South Asia. It will be essential for scholars and researchers of Bengali/Bangla language and literature, literary criticism, literary theory, comparative literature, Indian literature, cultural studies, art and aesthetics, performance studies, history, sociology, regional studies and South Asian studies. It will also interest the Bengali-speaking diaspora and those working on the intellectual history of Bengal and conservation of languages and culture
Copyright:
2022

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Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
416 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781000470345
Related ISBNs:
9781138633018, 9781032124704, 9781003224686
Publisher:
Taylor and Francis
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
selection and editorial matter, Subha Chakraborty Dasgupta and Subrata Sinha
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
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No
Categories:
Nonfiction, Literature and Fiction, Social Studies, Language Arts
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This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:
Subrata Sinha
Edited by:
Subha Chakraborty Dasgupta

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