Umme Salma

Bangladeshi Novels in English (eBook, PDF)

Cultural Contact and Migrant Subjectivity

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Produktbeschreibung

It challenges stereotypes surrounding Bangladeshi migration through seminal 20th and 21st-century Bangladeshi novels in English. It focuses on the complexities of migratory experiences through various gender and age groups while setting the study within the English-language literary history and linguistic ethnography of Bangladesh

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. November 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040225844
• Artikelnr.: 72335825

Autorenporträt

Umme Salma earned a PhD in Postcolonial and Other Literatures in English (focusing on Bangladeshi anglophone literature) from the School of Languages and Cultures, the University of Queensland, Australia. She was a Graduate Digital Research Fellow at the University of Queensland and an Honorary Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Western Australia. She has published research articles and book reviews in South Asian Review, Gitanjali and Beyond, Asiatic and Transnational Literature. Salma is also a bilingual poet, writing and publishing in Bangla and English. As an early career researcher, Salma teaches literature and writing at the University of Queensland, Australia, and has dedicated her time to research and publication. She has taught English language and literature in International Islamic University Chittagong, Bangladesh.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Migration, Myths, and Literature
Part I: Women's Perspectives
1. Women as Bangles, Bangles as Women: Traditions, Traps, and
Transformations in Nashid Kamal's The Glass Bangles
2. Housewifery, Triple Entrapments, and Slow Transformation in Monica
Ali's Brick Lane
3. A Wasp, a Whale, and a Ship: Women, Nation, and Nomadism in Tahmima
Anam's The Bones of Grace
4. "I Am So Afraid and It Hurts So Much": Transient Migration, Women,
Romance, and Politics in Farhana H. Rahman's The Eye of the Heart
Part II: Men's Perspectives
1. Migration, Race, and Traumatic Transculturation in Burrow by Manzu
Islam
2. "Bridges are Fragile things": Bonds, Bridges, and Eerie Evolution in
Zia Haider Rahman's In the Light of What We Know
3. Stories of Emotional Bedouins in Adib Khan's Seasonal Adjustments
and Spiral Road
Part III: Children's Perspectives
1. When Born Across: Cultural Sustainability, Intergenerational
Collisions and Child Agency in Adib Khan's Seasonal Adjustments and
Monica Ali's Brick Lane
Conclusion: Bangladeshi Novels in English: Cultural Contact and Migrant
Subjectivity
Index