The (Oxford India) Anthology of Bengali Literature

Volume II: 1941-1991
Herausgeber: Bardhan, Kalpana

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Produktbeschreibung

Covering 50 years, from 1941 to 1991, this volume includes writings of some of the most representative figures in Bengali literature. Divided into three broad sections-poetry, short fiction, and prose non-fiction-the selections cover a wide range of genres including poetry, short story, novel, memoir, and essay.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 552
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 221mm x 147mm x 41mm
• Gewicht: 771g
• ISBN-13: 9780198064619
• ISBN-10: 0198064616
• Artikelnr.: 32727459

Autorenporträt

Kalpana Bardhan is Research Associate, Center for South Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley.

Inhaltsangabe

* 4.
* Introduction
* POETRY:
* Jibanananda Das, 'On the Sidewalks' 'The Cat'
* Amiya Chakravarty, 'The Traveller' 'Petition to the Boss' '1604
University Drive' 'Calcutta'
* Sudhindranath Datta, 'The Vagrant' 'The Fool' 'Cyclone'
* Jasim Uddin, 'The Chariot of Dhamrai'
* Premendra Mitra, 'The Crow Caws' 'The Soul of Birds'
* Annada Sankar Ray, 'Difference' 'Remembrance'
* Ajit Datta, 'The Relative' 'The Black Mountain'
* Buddhadeva Bose, 'To My Unwritten Poems' 'Sonnet of 3 a.m.: 1'
'Sonnet of 3 a.m.: 2' 'Sunday Afternoon' 'The Moment of Liberation'
* Bishnu Dey, 'My Dreams too are Endless' 'The Alien' 'Aspiration'
'Water My Roots' 'Of Tagorean Beauty'
* Arun Mitra, 'These Few Lines' 'In the Stones of Calcutta' 'The March'
'Wayward' 'On the Breast of Nature'
* Ashokbijoy Raha, 'The Magic Tree'
* Dinesh Das, 'The Sickle'
* Samar Sen, 'The Storm' 'Scorched Earth' 'Self-Criticism' 'The Tides'
* Kamakshiprasad Chattopadhyay, 'The Price'
* Subhash Mukhopadhyay, 'At Every Step' 'At Day's End' 'Let Me Never
See' 'Deeper Still'
* Arun Kumar Sarkar, 'Endless'
* 'The Horse'
* Abdul Ghani Hazari, 'The Heart of the Sahib'
* '21st February'
* Latifi Hilali, 'On a Solitary Evening'
* Nirendranath Chakrabarti, 'Taimur' 'Instead' 'You Fear When You Fear'
'It's So at Times' 'All Kinds of Loving'
* Sukanta Bhattacharya, 'Passport' 'To My Dearest' 'Time to Come' 'Life
Supreme'
* Rajlakshmi Devi, 'Disaster' 'The House' 'Mountains'
* Lokenath Bhattacharya, 'Geometry at Twilight' 'False or True' 'The
Absent Hero' 'Not Until'
* Shamsur Rahman, 'Death Anniversary' 'Pain' 'There was a Door Here'
* Sarat Kumar Mukhopadhyay, 'The Cat Under the Stairs' 'Friends'
'Gratitude'
* Sankha Ghosh, 'At the Bend of the Road' 'Storm of Desire' 'The Sleep'
'Companion' 'Fallen' 'On that Endless Midnight' 'Oarbeats in the
Ribs'
* Alokeranjan Das Gupta, 'The Meta-Query' 'Beside the Well'
* Shakti Chattopadhyay, 'Walks behind, yet Stays Remote' 'Just Once
Try' 'I Can Go, but Why Should I' 'Old Grief and New Grief' 'The
Darkness of Many Centuries'
* Benoy Majumdar, 'Unititled' 'Time Wins'
* Sunil Gangopadhyay, 'A Case History' 'Inheritance' 'On the Stairs'
'Suddenly for Neera'
* Tarapada Roy, 'Head Bent' 'That Green Passport'
* Utpal Kumar Basu, 'Puri Series - 4' 'Puri Series - 8' 'Untitled'
* Al Mahmud, 'In the Dark One Day' 'Poetry' 'Simple Accusation'
'Nature'
* Vijaya Mukhopadhyay, 'Ancestor Worship' 'Equation' 'Monday' 'The
Ferry Ghat'
* Nabaneeta Dev Sen, 'Memories of a Floral Clock' 'Jungle Story'
'Sometimes, Love' 'So Many Crazy Blue Hills'
* Ketaki Kushari Dyson, 'Adam's Apple' 'Caravan'
* Mohammad Rafiq, 'Kirtinasha'
* Asad Chowdhury, 'Lamentation'
* Joy Goswami, 'In the Evening Sadness Comes ...' 'An Evening of Rain'
'Things Recalled at Night' 'Ballad of Last Rites'
* Mandakranta Sen, 'Bengal in Seventeenth Century: A Piece of Family
History' 'You' 'The Believer'
* SHORT FICTION:
* Parashurama (Rajshekhar Basu), 'An Immortal'
* Banaphul (Balaichand Mukhopadhyay), 'In the Same Boat'
* Premendra Mitra, 'Juthika'
* Prabodh Kumar Sanyal, 'Deep'
* Satinath Bhaduri, 'Patralekha's Father'
* Manik Bandyopadhyay, 'Haran's Grandson-in-law'
* Ashapurna Devi, 'Izzat'
* Subodh Ghose, 'Fossil'
* Jyotirindra Nandi, 'Game'
* Advaita Mallabarman, 'The Boat'
* Kamal Kumar Majumdar, 'Extinct Rituals'
* Narendranath Mitra, 'Truth and Untruth'
* Satyajit Ray, 'Load Shedding'
* Syed Waliullah, 'Tale of a Tulsi'
* Samaresh Basu, 'Adaab'
* Mahasweta Devi, 'The Divorce'
* Syed Mustafa Siraj, 'Horse of Death'
* Sarat Kumar Mukhopadhyay, 'The Quick Run'
* Hasan Hafizur Rehman, 'Two More Deaths'
* Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay, 'Look at Me'
* Syed Shamsul Haq, 'Secret Life, Public Death'
* Hasan Azizul Huq, 'Homecoming'
* Dibyendu Palit, 'The National Flag'
* Bani Basu, 'She'
* Akhtaruzzaman Ilias, 'In the Rooftop Room'
* Selina Hossain, 'Izzat'
* Nabarun Bhattacharya, 'The Blind Cat'
* Abul Bashar, 'Rebirth'
* Nasreen Jahan, 'Stranger'
* PROSE NON-FICTION:
* Kazi Abdul Wadud, 'Creative Bengal'
* Dhurjatiprasad Mukerji, 'Words and Melody'
* Nirmal Kumar Bose, 'The Structure of Hindu Society'
* Sudhindranath Datta, 'Utterance and Realization: The Tradition of
Writing in Bengal'
* Syed Muztaba Ali, 'Chacha's Anecdote'
* Abu Sayeed Ayyub, 'Ethics and Aesthetics in Literature'
* Buddhadeva Bose, 'The Last Journey'
* Samar Sen, 'A Babu's Tale'
* Sibnarayan Ray, 'Bengalee Identity: Problem, Inner Conflict, and
Tragedy'
* Ashok Mitra, 'Flavours of Freedom'
* Ashok Rudra, 'Friendship in Rabindranath's Love Songs'
* Sankha Ghosh, 'The Poet's Intention: The Writer, the Writing, the
Reader'
* Partha Chatterjee, 'Our Modernity'
* Gautam Bhadra, 'Bengal's Dervishes and the Clutch of Modern History'
* Nrisinhaprasad Bhaduri, 'The Island-born Vyasa'
* Manoranjan Byapari, 'Dalit Literature in Bangla'
* Taslima Nasrin, 'Selected Columns'
* Acknowledgements