Can Bengali Literature be Postcolonial?
| Autor: | Auritro Majumder |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Cultural Studies
Literature History Literature and Literary Theory Poetry business.industry Magic realism 05 social sciences Postcolonialism (international relations) 0507 social and economic geography 06 humanities and the arts 060202 literary studies 050701 cultural studies Intellectual history Indigenous language.human_language Bengali 0602 languages and literature language Relation (history of concept) business Drama |
| Zdroj: | Comparative Literature Studies. 53:417-425 |
| ISSN: | 1528-4212 0010-4132 |
| DOI: | 10.5325/complitstudies.53.2.0417 |
| Popis: | This paper explores the relation between Bengali literature and theories of postcolonialism. Bengali-language literature has been a significant inspiration for South Asian postcolonialist and comparativist concepts in the Anglo-American academy. This paper outlines the key literary figures and genealogies behind the development of postcolonial thought in West Bengal and Bangladesh. Various genres of poetry, drama, and fiction, aesthetic paradigms such as socialist and magical realism, as well as internationalist and indigenous sources, are examined, which enabled such a process across the twentieth century. A consideration of these aspects nuances the intellectual history of metropolitan postcolonialism, I argue, illuminating its erasures and appropriations. |
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