Bangladesh: Political and Literary Reflections on a Divided Country

ISBN-13: 9781433146138 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 546 str.

Jalal Khan

Opis

This book is a detailed account of the divided Bangladesh where there has been a near-total suppression and extermination, since 2009, of the political opposition BNP.

Recenzje

"Q M Jalal Khan made a serious intellectual effort to uncover the truth and justice behind Bangladesh being ruled by a brutal regime. Although politically sensitive (as it contests the current regime widely known for trampling democracy and for massive human rights abuse), Khan's work is a phenomenal contribution and hence is likely to have a wide marketability." -Md Saidul Islam, Professor of Sociology, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Spis treści

Notice to the Reader and Putting the Bartlebys on Notice - A Conch Preface: Why the Book, Why the Title -Acknowledgments - Introduction: Primary, Preliminary, and After - Democracy and Development: Development With Corruption and Without Democracy - The Role of the Police and the RAB (Rapid Action Battalion) in the "Development Sans Democracy" Conversation and the Gopal/Gopali Parrots and Predators in the Police - Politics Bangladesh Style: All Sick and Rotten to the Core - Bangladesh: A Trial Separation or a Complete Divorce in a Broken or Near-Broken Family? - The Chiefs and Their Uddinization of the 2006-2008 Caretaker Government - From the Opposition's (Wishy-Washy Dalliance) to the Position's (Red Light District): In Defense of the Three (Former) Female Opposition Parliament Members, the PAR ( /DeshKonnya Ashrafi Papia, Shammi Akhter, and Rehana Ranu) - Let's Follow the Example of Mujib's Clemency and Compassion and Not Set One of Cruel Otherization - The Quagmire of Partisan Politics Over the Dead: Controversies Over the Image and Status of Mujib and Zia - The Politics of the Past and the Honorifics of Titles - Bangladeshi Nationalism: A Cause and Concept Right and Just - Secularism in Bangladesh: Questions of Politicocultural and Religious Conflict - Taslima Nasreen: An Ultra-Feminist of Politicocultural and Religious Divide - When Bangladesh Is Divided Over Its National Anthem "Amar Sonar Bangla" (A Tagore Song): A Politico-Literary Perspective - Conclusion (Parts A and B) - Afterword.

O autorze

Q M Jalal Khan is a professor of English teaching in the Arabian Gulf. He has a (Fulbright) MA from American University in Washington, D.C., and a PhD from New York University. The author of numerous articles and books, Dr. Khan-ever mindful of whatever concerns Bangladesh-is settled in and maintains permanent ties to North America. Under preparation by Dr. Khan is a slim postscript volume further detailing the absence of social justice and the rule of law in the one-party police and prison state under the fascistic Awami regime and its Indianization of Bangladesh.