29. State Language and Language Issues in Bangladesh / Qazi Motahar Husain, Translated by Subha Chakraborty Dasgupta 1. Bengal and the Bengali in Charyageeti / Shashibhusan Dasgupta, Translated by Sudeshna Datta Chaudhuri -- 2. The Emergence of the Baul Sect and the Period of Composition of Baul Songs / Upendranath Bhattacharya, Translated by Sujaan Mukherjee -- 3. The Termination of Sri Gauranga's Leela / Dineshchandra Sen, Translated by Debapriya Basu -- 4. The Gaudiya Vaishnav Order: Its Treatises on Rhetoric and Rasa / Bishnupada Bhattacharya, Translated by Sudeshna Datta Chaudhuri -- 5. The Early Poets / Iswar Chandra Gupta, Translated by Debapriya Basu -- 6. A Message to the New Writers of Bengal and Sakuntala, Miranda and Desdemona / Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay, Translated by Subha Chakraborty Dasgupta -- 7. Preface to Sabuj Patra / Pramatha Chaudhuri, Translated by Tapan Chakraborty -- 8. The Bengali Youth and Three Poets / Haraprasad Shastri, Translated by Bimbabati Sen -- 9. The Sign of the Epic / Ramendrasundar Trivedi, Translated by Debapriya Basu -- 10. Tragedy in Bangla Literature / Mohitlal Majumdar, Translated by Doyeeta Majumder -- 11. A Consideration of Literature / Rajendralal Mitra, Translated by Sudeshna Datta Chaudhuri -- 12. Rasa and The Question of Taste / Rajshekhar Bose, Translated by Sudeshna Datta Chaudhuri -- 13. The Poetic Mind / Jagadish Bhattacharya, Translated by Sudeshna Datta Chaudhuri -- 14. Three Essays from Literature / Rabindranath Tagore, Translated by Tapan Chakraborty and Subha Chakraborty Dasgupta -- 15. The Search for World Language and World Literature in Poetry / Alokeranjan Dasgupta, Translated by Subha Chakraborty Dasgupta -- 16. Rabindranath and his Successors / Buddhadeva Bose, Translated by Samantak Das -- 17. The Liberation of Poetry / Sudhindranath Datta, Translated by Probal Dasgupta -- 18. On Poetry / Jibanananda Das, Translated by Sreemati Mukherjee -- 19. Progressiveness in Bangla Literature / Bishnu Dey, Translated by Parthasarathi Bhaumik -- 20. Bangla Literature and Muslims / Rezaul Karim, Translated by Tapan Chakraborty -- 21. Why I Write / Manik Bandyopadhyay, Translated by Tapan Chakraborty -- 22. My Thoughts on Literature / Ashapurna Devi, Translated by Subha Chakraborty Dasgupta -- 23. I/My Writing / Mahasweta Devi, Translated by Subha Chakraborty Dasgupta -- 24. In Search of a New Form of the Novel / Debes Ray, Translated by Sipra Mukherjee -- 25. Form in Theatre / Sisir Kumar Bhaduri, Translated by Sucheta Bhattacharya -- 26. Theatre Moments and the Search for Language / Sankha Ghosh, Translated by Anirban Datta -- 27. The Language of Theatre / Badal Sircar, Translated by Paromita Chaudhuri -- 28. The Alkap Theatre Tradition and Third Theatre / Syed Mustafa Siraj, Translated by Sujaan Mukherjee -- 29. State Language and Language Issues in Bangladesh / Qazi Motahar Husain, Translated by Subha Chakraborty Dasgupta
Summary:
This volume forms a part of the Critical Discourses in South Asia series which deals with schools, movements, and discursive practices in major South Asian languages. It offers crucial insights into the making of Bengali or Bangla literature and its critical tradition across a century. The book brings together English translation of major writings of influential figures dealing with literary criticism and theory, aesthetic and performative traditions, and reinterpretations of primary concepts and categories in Bangla. It presents 32 key texts in literary and cultural studies from Bengal from the middle of the 19th to that of the 20th century, with most of them translated for the first time into English. These seminal essays are linked with socio-historical events and phenomena in the colonial and post-independence period in Bengal, including the background to the Language Movement in Bangladesh. They discuss themes such as integrative aesthetic visions, poetic and literary forms, modernism, imagination, power structures and social struggles, ideological values, cultural renovations, and humanism. Comprehensive and authoritative, this volume offers an overview of the history of critical thought in Bangla literature in South Asia. It will be essential for scholars and researchers of Bengali/Bangla language and literature, literary criticism, literary theory, comparative literature, Indian literature, cultural studies, art and aesthetics, performance studies, history, sociology, regional studies, and South Asian studies. It will also interest the Bengali-speaking diaspora and those working on the intellectual history of Bengal and conservation of languages and culture.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.