Papers by Somdatta Mandal
Asiatic: IIUM Journal of English Language and Literature, Jul 8, 2018
Asiatic: IIUM Journal of English Language and Literature, Jun 12, 2021
Asiatic: IIUM Journal of English Language and Literature, Dec 10, 2021
English language writers of pre-1947 Bengal have claimed arguably some of the earliest and finest... more English language writers of pre-1947 Bengal have claimed arguably some of the earliest and finest South Asian literary works. However, because of mapping and remapping of the borders, critics often consider the 1971 spatial (not temporal) boundary of Bangladesh as the site of Bangladeshi literature in English (BLE). Since the country emerged primarily as a result of the language movement in 1952, the emergence of Anglophone writers in the nation state was rather late in arriving. Though its popularity in the younger generation is steadily ascending in the last two decades, English has no recognition in the Constitution of Bangladesh. With the influence of English dailies and literary festivals like the Hays Festival, the Dhaka Lit Fest, and others, and many of her citizens living abroad in the diaspora, the situation has started to change at a rapid pace. Basically, BLE can be classified as those writings which are originally written in English as well as those that are self-translated from Bengali to English. Bangladesh Anglophone writers in the post 1971 era can be divided into two generational categories-in the older generation falls writers like Razia Khan
Asiatic: IIUM Journal of English Language and Literature, Jun 25, 2023
Asiatic: IIUM Journal of English Language and Literature, Jun 23, 2022
Asiatic: IIUM Journal of English Language and Literature, Dec 19, 2023
Asiatic: IIUM Journal of English Language and Literature, Jun 6, 2020
Science and culture, Mar 3, 2023
Commentary on Hemingway’s African safaris and the works inspired by them, including Green Hills o... more Commentary on Hemingway’s African safaris and the works inspired by them, including Green Hills of Africa, “The Snows of Kilimanjaro,” and “The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber.” Focuses primarily on the publication and critical reception of the posthumous True at First Light
Routledge eBooks, Jun 22, 2023
Considers the influence of contemporary film genres such as the western on Hemingway’s developmen... more Considers the influence of contemporary film genres such as the western on Hemingway’s development of the code hero like Robert Jordan of For Whom the Bell Tolls. Also notes similarities between popular gangster films of the era and “The Killers.
Journal of the Department of English, 1998
Tells of Hemingway’s direct involvement with the Spanish Loyalist propaganda film, rejecting crit... more Tells of Hemingway’s direct involvement with the Spanish Loyalist propaganda film, rejecting criticism that the film was overtly biased. Claims that Hemingway interweaves propaganda with ethical issues to create a successful documentary
Collection of new and previously published essays on Hemingway’s life and writings by such well-k... more Collection of new and previously published essays on Hemingway’s life and writings by such well-known Hemingway scholars as Miriam B. Mandel, Peter L. Hays, and Scott Donaldson. See annotations for original essays below
Brief biographical survey of Hemingway’s two hunting expeditions in Africa and the writings inspi... more Brief biographical survey of Hemingway’s two hunting expeditions in Africa and the writings inspired by them. Focusing on the posthumous publication of his African memoir, Mandal discusses the narrative’s composition, publication history, and critical reception
Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities
The South Asianist Journal, Apr 16, 2021
Science and Culture, 2021
Let me begin with a subjective statement. A couple of years ’ back I accidentally picked up a deb... more Let me begin with a subjective statement. A couple of years ’ back I accidentally picked up a debut novel published by Phoenix House in London and reprinted by Penguin India. The novel was titled Across the Lakes and the short biographical introduction of Amal Chatterjee, the author, stated that he was born in Colombo, grew up in England and now lives and works in Glasgow. Mentally prepared to read a novel set in the beautiful Lake District of England, made so popular by Wordsworth and his fellow Romantic poets, it came as a great surprise to me when I found the first chapter beginning thus: “The Dhakuria Lakes are the lungs of South Calcutta. Once upon a time they marked the boundary of the city, beyond them lay the railway lines and beyond those the fields and villages”(Chatterjee, 1998). The rest of the story talked about incidents that were firmly rooted in Calcutta and captured its sights and sounds as authentically as possible. This set me thinking about the possible reason fo...
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Papers by Somdatta Mandal