A River Called Titash (eBook)

Adwaita Mallabarman (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2023
296 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-91318-9 (ISBN)

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Originally published in 1956, A River Called Titash is among the most highly acclaimed novels in Bengali literature. A unique combination of folk poetry and ethnography, Adwaita Mallabarman's tale of a Malo fishing village at the turn of the century captures the songs, speech, rituals, and rhythms of a once self-sufficient community and culture swept away by natural catastrophe, modernization, and political conflict.

Both historical document and work of art, this lyrical novel provides an intimate view of a community of Hindu fishers and Muslim peasants, coexisting peacefully before the violent partition of Bengal between India and East Pakistan (now Bangladesh). Mallabarman's story documents a way of life that has all but disappeared.


Originally published in 1956, A River Called Titash is among the most highly acclaimed novels in Bengali literature. A unique combination of folk poetry and ethnography, Adwaita Mallabarman's tale of a Malo fishing village at the turn of the centur

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 28.4.2023
• Reihe/Serie: Voices from Asia
• Reihe/Serie: Voices from Asia
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Schlagworte: 20th century bengali literature • Agriculture • ART • Asian History • Asian Literature • Bangladesh • Bengali literature • Culture • East Pakistan • ethnography • Fishing • folk poetry • Hindu • Historical document • India • Islam • lyrical novel • malo fishing village • Modernization • Muslim • Natural Catastrophe • natural disaster • Poetry • Political Conflict • Politics • Rituals • rivers • self sufficient community • Social norms • Social Structure • Songs • speeches • Starvation • Survival • translated novel • way of life
• ISBN-10: 0-520-91318-3 / 0520913183
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-91318-9 / 9780520913189