Africa in the Bengali Imagination: From Calcutta to Kampala, 1928-1973

ISBN-13: 9780367272258 / Angielski / Twarda / 2024 / 224 str.

Mahruba T. Mowtushi

Opis

This book examines textual representations of Africa in the Bengali nationalist and diasporic thought from 1928 to 1973.

Spis treści

Introduction: Contextualizing the Place of Africa in Bengali Imagination 1. Resources, Revenues and the Replenishment of Bengal: Bibhutibhusan Bandapadhyay’s African Adventure Novel, Chander Pahar (1933) 2. Space, Place and the Body: The New Nationalist Bhadrolok in Hemendrakumar Roy’s African Story, Abar Jakher Dhan (1933) 3. ‘A Call to Duty’: Rabindranath Tagore on Africa 4. Ganesh Bagchi and the Narratives of Longing and Belonging in Uganda, 1949-1964 5. Nations and Identities in Transition: The Poems of Rajat Neogy for Transition Magazine, 1962-1973 Conclusion: Of Further Connections and Associations

O autorze

Mahruba T. Mowtushi is Assistant Professor Department of English & Humanities, University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh. She has completed her PhD from King’s College, London in 2016.