Ballads from Bangladesh: an anthology of poems (translated by Helal Uddin Ahmed and introduced by Syed Manzoorul Islam: Dhaka: Sucheepatra, February 2009)

Every human society has its own shape, its own meanings, and its own stories; and literature of every society has immense merit and significance because it tells us stories of the people of that society and artistically narrativizes their life and culture. It delves deep into the recess of the human...

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Main Author:	Hasan, Md. Mahmudul
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Asiatic Society of Bangladesh 2009
Subjects:	PE English PI Oriental languages and literatures PK Indo-Iranian
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spelling	iium-374662014-08-15T02:22:48Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/37466/ Ballads from Bangladesh: an anthology of poems (translated by Helal Uddin Ahmed and introduced by Syed Manzoorul Islam: Dhaka: Sucheepatra, February 2009) Hasan, Md. Mahmudul PE English PI Oriental languages and literatures PK Indo-Iranian Every human society has its own shape, its own meanings, and its own stories; and literature of every society has immense merit and significance because it tells us stories of the people of that society and artistically narrativizes their life and culture. It delves deep into the recess of the human mind, explores humans’ emotional geographies and describes imaginatively their love and hatred, their joys and sorrows, their hope and fear – their life. Literature excavates the psychological landscape of a people, which may not be understood completely by looking at their external activities. Litterateurs register human experiences by using their creative paraphernalia and literary implements. Literary production is not primarily driven, and its worth determined, by people’s economic status or political strength/weakness, although Virginia Woolf has a different view on that. It is a spontaneous expression of human feelings and is produced in every society, in every culture. That the literature of some countries dominates the global cultural and intellectual discourse does not necessarily suggest its superiority over that of other parts of the world. Predominance of the literary works of a particular country or language may have to do with other factors including political dominance, economic power and the currents and hierarchy of global politics. Asiatic Society of Bangladesh 2009-12 Article NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/37466/1/book_review_ballads_from_bangladesh.pdf Hasan, Md. Mahmudul (2009) Ballads from Bangladesh: an anthology of poems (translated by Helal Uddin Ahmed and introduced by Syed Manzoorul Islam: Dhaka: Sucheepatra, February 2009). Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bangladesh (Humanities), 54 (2). pp. 147-150. ISSN 1015-6836 http://www.asiaticsociety.org.bd/journals.html
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description	Every human society has its own shape, its own meanings, and its own stories; and literature of every society has immense merit and significance because it tells us stories of the people of that society and artistically narrativizes their life and culture. It delves deep into the recess of the human mind, explores humans’ emotional geographies and describes imaginatively their love and hatred, their joys and sorrows, their hope and fear – their life. Literature excavates the psychological landscape of a people, which may not be understood completely by looking at their external activities. Litterateurs register human experiences by using their creative paraphernalia and literary implements. Literary production is not primarily driven, and its worth determined, by people’s economic status or political strength/weakness, although Virginia Woolf has a different view on that. It is a spontaneous expression of human feelings and is produced in every society, in every culture. That the literature of some countries dominates the global cultural and intellectual discourse does not necessarily suggest its superiority over that of other parts of the world. Predominance of the literary works of a particular country or language may have to do with other factors including political dominance, economic power and the currents and hierarchy of global politics.
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title	Ballads from Bangladesh: an anthology of poems (translated by Helal Uddin Ahmed and introduced by Syed Manzoorul Islam: Dhaka: Sucheepatra, February 2009)
title_short	Ballads from Bangladesh: an anthology of poems (translated by Helal Uddin Ahmed and introduced by Syed Manzoorul Islam: Dhaka: Sucheepatra, February 2009)
title_full	Ballads from Bangladesh: an anthology of poems (translated by Helal Uddin Ahmed and introduced by Syed Manzoorul Islam: Dhaka: Sucheepatra, February 2009)
title_fullStr	Ballads from Bangladesh: an anthology of poems (translated by Helal Uddin Ahmed and introduced by Syed Manzoorul Islam: Dhaka: Sucheepatra, February 2009)
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Ballads from Bangladesh: an anthology of poems (translated by Helal Uddin Ahmed and introduced by Syed Manzoorul Islam: Dhaka: Sucheepatra, February 2009)

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