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Africa in the Bengali Imagination - From Calcutta to Kampala, 1928-1973 (Hardcover)
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Africa in the Bengali Imagination - From Calcutta to Kampala, 1928-1973 (Hardcover)
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This book examines textual representations of Africa in the Bengali
nationalist and diasporic thought from 1928 to 1973. It is the
first full-length study of the development of ‘Africa’ as an
idea and historical reality through the writings of five Bengali
writers including, the Bengali novelist Bibhutibhusan Bandapadhyay
(1894-1950), the children’s author Hemendrakumar Roy (1888-1963),
the poet and philosopher Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941), the
playwright Ganesh Bagchi (1923-2016) and the surrealist poet and
founding editor of Transition magazine Rajat Neogy (1938-1995). The
volume shows how these writers engage with the idea of Africa and
how that helped in the construction of Bengali cultural identity
during the freedom struggle, the Partition of Bengal in 1947 and
the creation of Bangladesh in 1971. First of its kind, this book
will be an excellent read for the students and scholars of
literature, comparative literature, history, cultural studies,
post-colonial studies, South Asian studies, African studies and
also to the Bengali Diaspora across the globe.
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