Bangladesh in Anglophone and Vernacular Literature - Cultural Imaginings of a Postcolonial Nation

This book illuminates individual and collective imaginings of postcolonial Bangladesh. It explores the emergence of Bangladesh as a nation from a variety of perspectives.

List of contents

Prologue
1. Counter-imagining Partition: Passage to East Pakistan in the Bengali Novel
2. "Looking Glass Border" Anglophone Novels: Representing East Pakistan's Hindu Minority
3. Fracturing Pakistan, Forming Bangladesh: Passive Revolution in the Bengali Novel
4. 1971: A Gendered War?
5. Cross-Border Interventions: 1971 in the Indian English Novel
6. Cosmopolitan Perspectives: The 1971 War in South Asian Diaspora Novels
Epilogue: the Anglophone-Vernacular Divide, a Nation Reimagined, and Worlding of Bangladesh's Literature

About the author

Asif Iqbal is a Visiting Assistant Professor of English and Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Postcolonial World Literature at Oberlin College, Ohio, USA. He has been published in Transcultural Humanities in South Asia: Critical Essays on Literature and Culture (2022). His articles and reviews have appeared in South Asian Review and South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies. Dr Iqbal is also the recipient of the Bangabandhu Sheikh Rahman Research Award administered by the Subir and Malini Chowdhury Center for Bangladesh Studies at UC Berkeley

Product details

• Authors: Asif Iqbal, Iqbal Asif
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 22.08.2025
• EAN: 9781032961545
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3296154-5
• No. of pages: 216
• Series: Routledge Research on Asian Literature
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; History, HISTORY / General, Society & culture: general, Regional Studies, History: specific events and topics, Regional / International studies, Literary studies: post-colonial literature, Society and culture: general, Indian sub-continent, Literary studies: postcolonial literature, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / Asian Studies