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: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés Bengali |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
1990.
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Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 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.