Of women, outcastes, peasants, and rebels : a selection of Bengali short stories /
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 structu...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English Bengali |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press
©1990.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1pnm18 |
| Summary: | 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. |
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| Item Description: | Translated from Bengali. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (vii, 330 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9780520909458 0520909453 0585111774 9780585111773 9780520067134 0520067134 0520067142 9780520067141 1282355546 9781282355545 |