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!" ############################## AZFAR HUSSAIN Department of English Washington State University Pullman, Washington 99164-5020 Phones: 509-332-4405 (home) 509-335-1803 (work) E-mail: azfar-AT-wsu.edu ############################## --- from list postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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