Year
1999
Degree Name
Master of Arts Honours
Department
English Studies - Faculty of Arts
Recommended Citation
Chowdhury, Khairul H, Three Bangladeshi plays considered in postcolonial context, MA (Hons) thesis, English Studies, University of Wollongong, 1999. http://ro.uow.edu.au/theses/6
Abstract
There is no full-length investigation of postcoloniality in Bangladeshi Bengali literature. This is partly because Bangladesh had no separate identity under colonial rule, being just another part of greater India. Then, at partition, it became one section of the unnatural union that was Pakistan. These two identities have kept Bangladesh as a relatively unknown domain, at least to the Western academy. The other reason in the context of literary postcolonial studies is that these have concentrated on writing in English, whereas Bangladeshi literature is almost completely in the national language. This study offers a discussion of the postcoloniality of contemporary Bangladeshi theatre via analysis of selected playtexts.
Unless otherwise indicated, the views expressed in this thesis are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of the University of Wollongong.