Galpa : Short Stories By Women From Bangladesh


Galpa : Short Stories By Women From Bangladesh

Author

Niaz Zaman & Firdous Azim

Language

ENGLISH

Item Type

Book

Book No

B1177443

Location

F1-R7S3

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Description :

Part of a series showcasing contemporary women writers from around the world.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 Jahan 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.