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Title:

Of women, outcastes, peasants, and rebels : a selection of Bengali short stories / edited, translated, and with an introduction by Kalpana Bardhan.

Publisher:

University of California Press,

Copyright Date:

c1990

Description:

vii, 330 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Short stories, Bengali--Translations into English.
Bengal (India)--Fiction.--Fiction.
Bengala--Novela.--Novela.
Short stories--Short stories

Other Authors:

Bardhan, Kalpana.

Notes:

Translated from Bengali. Includes bibliographical references.

Contents:

The living and the dead. The punishment. The girl in between. Haimanti. Letter from a wife / Rabindranath Thakur -- The witch. Variation on "The witch" : an excerpt / Tarashankar Bandyopadhyay -- The unlucky woman. A tale of these days. The old woman. A female problem at a low level / Manik Bandyopadhyay -- Paddy seeds. Dhowli. The funeral wailer. Strange children. The witch-hunt. Giribala / Mahasweta Devi -- The daughter and the oleander. In search of happiness. Through death and life. A day in Bhushan's life / Hasan Azizul Huq.

ISBN:

9780520067141 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0520067142 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780520067134 (alk. paper)
0520067134 (alk. paper)

LCCN:

89035749

Locations:

UDAX314 -- Charles C. Myers Library (Dubuque)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)