Impact of Famine on Bengali Literature
Book Details
Author(s)
Mandira Ghosh
Publisher
Blauynske Publishing
ISBN / ASIN
B00M8LEHW6
ISBN-13
978B00M8LEHW8
Sales Rank
#2,501,167
Marketplace
United States 🇺🇸
Description
A number of Bengali novelists, poets, dramatists made a vivid portrait of hunger and death. Famous novelist Tarashankar Bandopadhyay named this new trend in literature as ‘Natun Sahitya’ or New Literature.
Literary output of Bengal’s literati, which was the result of famine and war, introduced this new trend in literature. Resulted in the forties
it revealed the record of annihilation, universal dissolution, and the holocaust over Bengal, terrible affray, which lead to the exceptional outburst of creative energy.A systematic analysis of the impact of famine on Bengali literature is thus important as it changed the entire political, social and economic scenario of Bengal.
Literary output of Bengal’s literati, which was the result of famine and war, introduced this new trend in literature. Resulted in the forties
it revealed the record of annihilation, universal dissolution, and the holocaust over Bengal, terrible affray, which lead to the exceptional outburst of creative energy.A systematic analysis of the impact of famine on Bengali literature is thus important as it changed the entire political, social and economic scenario of Bengal.
