Africa In The Bengali Imagination
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Africa In The Bengali Imagination From Calcutta To Kampala 1928 1973
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Author : Mahruba T. Mowtushi
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016
Africa In The Bengali Imagination From Calcutta To Kampala 1928 1973 written by Mahruba T. Mowtushi and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with categories.
This thesis examines the role textual representations of Africa played in the Bengali literary imagination and in Bengali nationalist and diasporic thought from 1928 to 1973. The first half of the thesis focuses on ideas of the nation and nationalism in the works of Calcutta-based writers Bibhutibhusan Bandapadhyay (1894-1950), Hemendrakumar Roy (1888-1963), and Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941). The racial and ethnographic representations of a 'dark' and 'exotic' Africa acted as a reference point against which ideas of Bengali nationalism took shape in their works. The second half examines selected plays and poems by two relatively unknown Ugandan-Bengali writers, Rajat Neogy (1938-1995) and Ganesh Bagchi (b.1923), both of whom, as members of the South Asian diasporic community in East Africa, promoted cultural and literary connections between India and Africa. In Bagchi and Neogy, the earlier Bengali fantasies of an unfathomable and sensual Africa are replaced with the desire to establish a positive knowledge of Africa by engaging with the struggles for decolonization and independence from Britain. Each chapter explores how these writers engage with an Africa that is both real and imaginary, and the implications this had for the construction of Bengali identity in the forty-five year period that witnessed the partition of India in 1947, followed by the creation of Bangladesh in 1971. The primary texts include three novels in Bengali: Bibhutibhusan Bandapadhyay's Chander Pahar (1933); Hemendrakumar Roy's Jakher Dhan (1928) and its sequel Abar Jakher Dhan (1933); Rabindranath Tagore's poem 'To Africa' (1936) in English and Bengali; two plays by Ganesh Bagchi, The Gold Diggers of Yaksha Town (1960) and The Deviant (1961); and the poetry and critical essays written for Transition magazine by its Bengali-Ugandan editor Rajat Neogy between 1962 to 1973.
Africa In The Bengali Imagination
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Author : Mahruba T. Mowtushi
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2024-10-02
Africa In The Bengali Imagination written by Mahruba T. Mowtushi and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-10-02 with Literary Collections categories.
This book examines textual representations of Africa in the Indian imagination from 1928 to 1973. It critically analyses Bengali literature during this period, their imitation of colonial racial prejudices and how it allowed Bengalis to fashion their identity. It analyses the development of ‘Africa’ as an idea and historical reality through the writings of five Bengali writers including the Bengali novelist Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay, the children’s author Hemendra Kumar Roy, the poet and philosopher Rabindranath Tagore, the playwright Ganesh Bagchi and the surrealist poet and founding editor of Transition magazine Rajat Neogy. The book shows how these writers engage with the idea of Africa and their influence in the construction of the Bengali cultural identity during the freedom struggle, the Partition of Bengal in 1947 and the creation of Bangladesh in 1971. The book offers readers a glimpse of the exotic imaginary locales of Africa while offering an in-depth look into the interconnected histories, cartographic routes and cultural exchange between India and Africa. A first of its kind, this book will be an excellent read for students and scholars of literature, comparative literature, history, cultural studies, postcolonial studies, South Asian studies, African studies and diaspora studies. .
The Mountain Of The Moon
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Author : Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay
language : en
Publisher: Niyogi Books
Release Date : 2020-01-06
The Mountain Of The Moon written by Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay and has been published by Niyogi Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-01-06 with Fiction categories.
The mountain of the moon is a story about taking a chance dare which, with its wings of imagination, leads you to the silver lining after a storm. Shankar, an ordinary young boy from rural India, crosses many skies and seas to explore an altogether different world—africa. There, he joins a seasoned Portuguese Explorer, Diego alvarez on a daring mission. But is the destination worth the toil of the journey? Moreover, will Shankar get to the peak of his mountain of dreams? The Storyline, with a series of adventures, is a testimony to the eternal virtues of courage, curiosity and compassion. It gradually becomes a tantalizing tale of an unusual friendship that evolved in the spectacular but dangerous African forests and grasslands teeming with mysterious wildlife, people and their folklores. Experience this classic adventurous narrative in English that will lead you again to an era of picaro, when one dared to dream. This book has also been adapted into a popular Bengali movie.
Africa In The Indian Imagination
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Author : Antoinette Burton
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2016-03-31
Africa In The Indian Imagination written by Antoinette Burton and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-31 with History categories.
In Africa in the Indian Imagination Antoinette Burton reframes our understanding of the postcolonial Afro-Asian solidarity that emerged from the 1955 Bandung conference. Afro-Asian solidarity is best understood, Burton contends, by using friction as a lens to expose the racial, class, gender, sexuality, caste, and political tensions throughout the postcolonial global South. Focusing on India's imagined relationship with Africa, Burton historicizes Africa's role in the emergence of a coherent postcolonial Indian identity. She shows how—despite Bandung's rhetoric of equality and brotherhood—Indian identity echoed colonial racial hierarchies in its subordination of Africans and blackness. Underscoring Indian anxiety over Africa and challenging the narratives and dearly held assumptions that presume a sentimentalized, nostalgic, and fraternal history of Afro-Asian solidarity, Burton demonstrates the continued need for anti-heroic, vexed, and fractious postcolonial critique.
Statelessness And Citizenship
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Author : Victoria Redclift
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-06-26
Statelessness And Citizenship written by Victoria Redclift and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-06-26 with Business & Economics categories.
What does it mean to be a citizen? In depth research with a stateless population in Bangladesh has revealed that, despite liberal theory’s reductive vision, the limits of political community are not set in stone. The Urdu-speaking population in Bangladesh exemplify some of the key problems facing uprooted populations and their experience provides insights into the long term unintended consequences of major historical events. Set in a site of camp and non-camp based displacement, it illustrates the nuances of political identity and lived spaces of statelessness that Western political theory has too long hidden from view. Using Bangladesh as a case study, Statelessness and Citizenship: Camps and the creation of political space argues that the crude binary oppositions of statelessness and citizenship are no longer relevant. Access to and understandings of citizenship are not just jurally but socially, spatially and temporally produced. Unpicking Agamben’s distinction between ‘political beings’ and ‘bare life’, the book considers experiences of citizenship through the camp as a social form. The camps of Bangladesh do not function as bounded physical or conceptual spaces in which denationalized groups are altogether divorced from the polity. Instead, citizenship is claimed at the level of everyday life, as the moments in which formal status is transgressed. Moreover, once in possession of ‘formal status’ internal borders within the nation-state render ‘rights-bearing citizens’ effectively ‘stateless’, and the experience of ‘citizens’ is very often equally uneven. While ‘statelessness’ may function as a cold instrument of exclusion, certainly, it is neither fixed nor static; just as citizenship is neither as stable nor benign as the dichotomy would suggest. Using these insights, the book develops the concept of ‘political space’ – an analysis of the way history and space inform the identities and political subjectivity available to people. In doing so, it provides an analytic approach of relevance to wider problems of displacement, citizenship and ethnic relations. Shortlisted for this year’s BSA Philip Abrams Memorial Prize.
Insurgent Imaginations
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Author : Auritro Majumder
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2020-10-22
Insurgent Imaginations written by Auritro Majumder and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-22 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book illustrates how internationalist writers marginalized the West and placed the non-Western regions in a new center.
Kafka S Monkey And Other Phantoms Of Africa
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Author : Seloua Luste Boulbina
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2019-05-24
Kafka S Monkey And Other Phantoms Of Africa written by Seloua Luste Boulbina and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-05-24 with Philosophy categories.
Even though many of France's former colonies became independent over fifty years ago, the concept of "colony" and who was affected by colonialism remain problematic in French culture today. Seloua Luste Boulbina, an Algerian-French philosopher and political theorist, shows how the colony's structures persist in the subjectivity, sexuality, and bodily experience of human beings who were once brought together through force. This text, which combines two works by Luste Boulbina, shows how France and its former colonies are haunted by power relations that are supposedly old history, but whose effects on knowledge, imagination, emotional habits, and public controversies have persisted vividly into the present. Luste Boulbina draws on the work of Michel Foucault, Frantz Fanon, and Édouard Glissant to build a challenging, original, and intercultural philosophy that responds to blind spots of inherited political and social culture. Kafka's Monkey and Other Phantoms of Africa offers unique insights into how issues of migration, religious and ethnic identity, and postcolonial history affect contemporary France and beyond.
India S Forests Real And Imagined
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Author : Alan Johnson
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2022-12-29
India S Forests Real And Imagined written by Alan Johnson and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-12-29 with Literary Criticism categories.
As they seek to explore evolving and conflicting ideas of nationhood and modernity, India's writers have often chosen forests as the dramatic setting for stories of national identity. India's Forests, Real and Imagined explores how these settings have been integral to India's sense of national consciousness. Alan Johnson demonstrates that modern writers have drawn on older Indian literary traditions of the forest as a place of exile, trial and danger to shape new ideas of India as a modern nation. The book casts new light on a wide range of modern writers, from Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay – widely regarded as the first Indian novelist – to contemporary authors such as Amitav Ghosh, Arundhati Roy, and Salman Rushdie as well as local attitudes to nationhood and the environment across the country.
Time Out In The Land Of Apu
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Author : Hia Sen
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2013-07-15
Time Out In The Land Of Apu written by Hia Sen and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-07-15 with Social Science categories.
Within Childhood Research starkly different theoretical and empirical concerns characterize the global south-north divide. Hia Sen attempts to bridge the gap in Childhood Research which usually addresses childhoods differently according to their 'developing/developed', 'western/non-western' contexts, and finds its middle ground in the context of the urban middle classes in contemporary West Bengal. The author documents areas such as leisure practices and everyday lives of school children in India for three cohorts, where it is possible to have a comparative perspective of childhoods given the existing rich ethnographic and historical research on childhoods in other cultural contexts.
Selected Essays
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Author : Kazi Nazrul Islam
language : en
Publisher: Penguin Random House India Private Limited
Release Date : 2024-01-30
Selected Essays written by Kazi Nazrul Islam and has been published by Penguin Random House India Private Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-01-30 with Literary Collections categories.
Kazi Nazrul Islam (1899-1976) is widely remembered as the fiery iconoclast who fought against the structures of oppression and orthodoxy. The iconic ‘rebel poet’ of Bengal, Nazrul continues to be loved for his songs and poetry. But what of his prose, his journalism, and his politics? Selected Essays reveals to us the extraordinary versatility of Nazrul as an essayist. Addressing subjects as diverse as social reform, politics, communal harmony, environmental concerns, education, aesthetics, ethics, and philosophy, this rich collection showcases Nazrul’s dynamic vision and unique use of language as an instrument of change. The essays chart his evolving consciousness as a thinker, writer and activist, offering vivid glimpses of the ethos of his times, his relationships with leading figures such as Tagore and Gandhi, and his active engagement with social, political and cultural processes. These new translations bring Nazrul’s powerful voice to life, all its vibrant immediacy.