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Galpa: Short Stories by Bangladeshi Women

Galpa: Short Stories by Bangladeshi Women

by Firdous Azim (Editor), Firdous Azim (Editor), Niaz Zaman (Editor)

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Synopsis

This vibrant and thought-provoking anthology of translated short stories is representative of the variety of issues that women from Bangladesh tackle in their writings. It includes stories about the 1971 War of Liberation, women's 'honour', mother-daughter relationships, the vagaries of marriage and contemporary political corruption. Well-established women writers such as Selina Hossain and Nasreen Jehan are represented here, along with emerging writers, the better to evoke the broad range of Bangladeshi women's literary voices. Daring in both form and theme, these stories reveal the exciting transformation that fiction writing is currently experiencing on the contemporary literary scene.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 280
 Publisher: Saqi Books
Published: 04 Sep 2005
ISBN 10: 0863565670
ISBN 13: 9780863565670

Media Reviews
'Once again, Saqi Books have brought to the public a collection of passionate and poignant prose from across the shores and into the literary scene.' Calabash
Author Bio
Niaz Zaman is Professor of English, University of Dhaka. Publications include the prize-winning study A Divided Legacy: The Partition in Selected Novels of India and Pakistan; the novel The Crooked Neem Tree; and the short story anthology The Dance. Firdous Azim is Professor of English at BRAC University in Dhaka, Bangladesh. She has published widely on literary, cultural and women's issues, both inside and outside the country, including The Colonial Rise of the Novel (1993). She is an active member of Naripokkho, a woman's activist group in Bangladesh, and is currently working on a woman's activists' memoir project.