Broken Bengal: Tropes of Conviviality and Fracture in Bangla Fiction

• المؤلف الرئيسي: O'Connor, Maurice
• التنسيق: text
• منشور في: Archīum Ateneo 2024
• الموضوعات: Bangla literature; conviviality; Hindu-Muslim divide; historiography; Partition of Bengal; reflective nostalgia
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: https://archium.ateneo.edu/kk/vol1/iss45/1; https://archium.ateneo.edu/context/kk/article/1029/viewcontent/Maurice_20O_27Connor_20_281_29.pdf
• المؤسسة: Ateneo De Manila University

This essay examines how Bangla fiction employs the trope of conviviality as a means to provide an affective understanding of the partition of Bengal. Of principal concern is how Bengali writers, regardless of their religious affiliation, insist upon the existence of a common Bengali across the relig...