The Routledge Handbook of Bangladeshi Literary Cultures

Author Biographies

1)    Introduction: Locating Bangladesh and its Literary Culture – Kaiser Haq

Part 1: Ideational and Literary Foundations        

2)    Context, Text, Identity of Muslim-Bengalis: A Hyphenated Subaltern’s Struggle for Selfhood and Voice – Ahrar Ahmad

3)    Partition and Bangladeshi Literature – Towhidul Islam Khan

4)    The Cultural Politics of the 1952 Language Movement and Bangladesh – Asif Iqbal

5)    The Literary Practices of Bengali Muslim Writers in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries – Abantee Harun

Part 2: Genres and Trends 

6)    Modernism in Bangladeshi Poetry – Kaiser Haq

7)    Bangladeshi Poets and Poetry in Recent Decades – Fakrul Alam

8)    Social Realism and the Post-Liberation War Bangladeshi Fiction – Sarker Hasan Al Zayed

9)    Modernism and Bangladeshi Fiction – Sarker Hasan Al Zayed

10) Literature of Bangladesh: Belles-Lettres, Travel Writing, and Autobiography (1947-1971) – Sohana Manzoor

11) Experimental Trends in Contemporary Bangladeshi Literature – Md. Rezaul Islam (Shamim Reza) and Shamsad Mortuza

12) The Length and Breadth of Bangladeshi Anglophone Literature –Md. Mahmudul Hasan

Part 3: Women’s Contributions

13) Pioneering Muslim Women Writers of Colonial Bengal (1876-1947) – Fayeza Hasanat

14) The Rise of Bangladeshi Writing: Women Writers (1947-1971) – Arifa Ghani Rahman

15) Feminism and Women Writers of Bangladesh: Liberation to Contemporary Era ¬ – Sharminur Nahar and Nusrat Tajkia

Part 4: Performative and Visual Arts        

16) The Indigenous Theatre of Bangladesh – Syed Jamil Ahmed

17) Mystical and Devotional Lyrics: From Bhakti Poetry to Bauls –Golam Rabbani

18) Modern Bangladeshi Theatre: A Platform for Social Activism –Tahmina Ahmed

19) Visual Arts and Bangladeshi Literary Culture – Syed Manzoorul Islam

20) The National Cinema of Bangladesh – Fahmida Akhter

Part 5: Beyond the Mainstream     

21) The Threatened Fringe: Literary Culture of the Indigenous Peoples – Pavel Partha

22) Urdu in Bangladesh: Maintaining an ‘Imagined Community’ – Rukhsana R. Chowdhury

23) Afterword: Many Directions of Bangladeshi Literary Culture –Shamsad Mortuza

Index

Biography

Kaiser Haq is a distinguished poet, translator, and academic. Before joining the University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh (ULAB), he taught for 41 years at the University of Dhaka, where he earned his BA Honours and MA degrees.

Shamsad Mortuza is Professor of English at the University of Dhaka, a scholar, poet, translator, and columnist. He served as the Pro-Vice-Chancellor of the University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh (ULAB) from 2018 to 2022.