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Shyamal Kumar Pramanik is one of the most powerful writers of the Bangla Dalit literary movement. His evocative fictional world throws into relief the lives of the downtrodden in in contemporary India. This volume brings his fiction to a new readership by presenting English translations of a selection of his most powerful stories.
This book is part of the Voices from the Margins series, which seeks to enhance the visibility of literary texts and traditions from various Indian languages and also to bring Dalit literature to the center stage. Pramanik focuses extensively on lives and lifestyles of the people in the Sundarbans, the largest mangrove forest in the world and an ecologically fragile zone. Drawn from personal experience, many of these stories paint in vivid colors the deprivations that define life in this part of the world. His fiction highlights the workings of caste.. The translations in this anthology are buttressed by an interview with the writer which includes his reflections on his life, society, and his writings, opening up new possibilities of understanding his work in its larger social context. The book also creates an academic framework within which Pramanik's fiction can be read and critically analyzed.
This critical edition will be of interest to students and researchers of comparative literature, South Asian literature and culture, modern Indian literature, Dalit studies, culture, history, and sociology.
Contents
1. Introduction
2. Bhajahari and his Family
3. In Dakshin Rai's Land
4. Champaburi, or the Story of a Village
5. Nibaran Mandal's Tale
6. Untouchable
7. Hariram
8. Surjakanta and his Nimpur Village
9. Charak Mela
10. Homeland
11. Life in the Forest
12. Darkness
13. Unforgiving Time
14. Primitive Even Today
15. Life and Death of Love
16. Lakhi of Lakhimpur
17. The Verdict of Time
18. Fourth Bharatvarsha
19. Survival
20. Tom Uncle's Dream
21. Time for a Revolution
22. Interview with Shyamal Kumar Pramanik
Index
