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Date: Thu, 10 Oct 1996 10:11:02 -0800
From: azfar-AT-wsu.edu (Azfar Hussain)
Subject: Re: Akhtaruzzaman Elias: Source, etc



Dear Saeed,

The statement I used as my epigraph in my second response to Dr Talib was
taken from Akhtaruzzaman Elias's most recent novel called _Khoabnama_
(Dream Chronicles), Dhaka: Maula Brothers, 1996, p. 96. Akhtaruzzaman
Elias, based in Dhaka (Bangladesh), is perhaps the finest Bengali novelist
writing today. _Khoabnama_ (not yet translated in English) traverses a wide
range of political-historical issues related to the struggles of the
subaltern classes in Bengal (the novel refers to numerous peasant-movements
that took place in various parts of rural Bengal during and after British
colonial rule in India). A Marxist activist, Elias played a significant
role in organizing a massive protest of writers and intellectuals against
the Blasphemy Act that was proposed in 1994 by the fundamentalist political
party called "Jamaat" in the Parliament of Bangladesh. Indeed, it was my
privilege to have worked with him during the period of organizing this
protest. Regards.

Azfar

On Wed, 9 Oct 1996, "saeed" wrote:

>Subject: Re: My right of reply, Indonesia, Postcolonial Theorizing, etc

>Azfar, can you please give the source of your epigraph? Who is
>Akhtaruzzaman Elias?

>
>         "When I speak I transgress and twist...when you speak you utter the
>         Holy Word!"

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Department of English
Washington State University
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