Niaz Zaman,Firdous Azim,Selina Hossain,Parag Chowdhury,Shabnam Nadiya,Shaheen Akhtar,Sonia Nishat Amin,Purabi Basu,Jharna Rahman,Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain
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, womenâ€™s â€˜honourâ€™, 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 womenâ€™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.,Niaz Zaman, is Professor of English, University of Dhaka. Her publications include the prize-winning study ,A Divided Legacy: The Partition in Selected Novels of India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh,; the novel ,The Crooked Neem Tree, and the short story anthology ,The Dance and Other Stories,. She is currently preparing a second collection of short stories for the press.,Firdous Azim, is Professor of English at BRAC University in Dhaka, Bangladesh. She has published widely on literary, cultural and womenâ€™s issues, both inside and outside the country, including ,The Colonial Rise of the Novel, (1993). She is an active member of Naripokkho, a womanâ€™s activist group in Bangladesh, and is currently working on a women activistsâ€™ memoir project.
Cultural,Bangladesh,Short Stories,Fiction
Galpa: Short Stories by Bangladeshi Women