The collection of essays, spanning the author’s academic career, starts by looking back to his early experience of Bengal in barisal, Bangladesh, hometown of Bengali poet Jibanananda das, and goes on to analyze some important works of Bangla literature. One of the most prominent genres of premodern Bangla literature, the mangal kabya, is examined in detail with attention paid both to Bharatcandra Ray's eighteenth-century classic Annada Mangal and to ...
