Of women, outcastes, peasants, and rebels: a selection of Bengali short stories
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Berkeley University of California Press ©1990
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Beschreibung:Translated from Bengali
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Cover; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; The Living and the Dead; The Punishment; The Girl in Between; Haimanti; Letter from a Wife; The Witch; Variation on "The Witch": An Excerpt; The Unlucky Woman; A Tale of These Days; The Old Woman; A Female Problem at a Low Level; Paddy Seeds; Dhowli; The Funeral Wailer; Strange Children; The Witch-Hunt; Giribala; The Daughter and the Oleander; In Search of Happiness; Through Death and Life; A Day in Bhushan's Life
Until now the large body of socially focused Bengali literature has remained little known to Western readers. This collection includes some of the finest examples of Bengali short stories-stories that reflect the turmoil of a changing society traditionally characterized by rigid hierarchical structures of privilege and class differentiation. Written over a span of roughly ninety years from the early 1890s to the late 1970s, the twenty stories in this collection represent the work of five authors. Their characters, drawn from widely varying social groups, often find themselves caught up in tumul
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (vii, 330 pages)
ISBN:0520067142
0520909453
0585111774
1282355546
9780520067141
9780520909458
9780585111773
9781282355545

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