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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書誌詳細
その他の著者: Bardhan, Kalpana
フォーマット: Licensed eBooks
言語:英語
ベンガル語
出版事項: Berkeley : University of California Press ©1990.
オンライン・アクセス:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1pnm18
目次:
  • The living and the dead ; The punishment ; The girl in between ; Haimanti ; Letter from a wife / Rabindranath Thakur
  • The witch ; Variation on "The witch" : an excerpt / Tarashankar Bandyopadhyay
  • The unlucky woman ; A tale of these days ; The old woman ; A female problem at a low level / Manik Bandyopadhyay
  • Paddy seeds ; Dhowli ; The funeral wailer ; Strange children ; The witch-hunt ; Giribala / Mahasweta Devi
  • The daughter and the oleander ; In search of happiness ; Through death and life ; A day in Bhushan's life / Hasan Azizul Huq.