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Amor Ekushey |
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M.E.Chowdhury Shamim
President,
Scholarsbangladesh |
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| TOPIC: Nazrul's Poetics: a polyphonic discourse of the multitude. |
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Haider A. Khan
Professor of International Economics,
GSIS, University of Denver,
Denver, Co. 80208 USA
Visiting Professor, University of Tokyo,
Tokyo, Japan. |
Nazrul burst forth on the literary scene of Bengal at the end of the first world war like a Nietszchean 'dancing star'. His meteoric rise to literary fame and political notoriety just as much as his untimely and tragic eclipse may have prevented the critics from a full and genuine assessment of his contributions. In post-1947 Pakistan as well as post-liberation Bangladesh, his identity as a Muslim( in truth a partial and complex identity at best) became politically primary for reasons that are too obvious and crude to
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