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GALPA: Short Stories by Women from Bangladesh

Niaz Zaman

Rave Media 2007

Language: English

280 Pages

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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 poltical corruption. Well-establisehd 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. Firdous Azimis 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, includingThe Colonial Rise of the Novel(1993). She is an active member of Naripokkho, a women’s activist group in Bangladesh, and is currently working on a women activists’ memoir project.

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