Location:  Seminar Room (19th Floor, Building # 2), Brac University February 26th, 2020 - 3:30pm to 5:30pm

The Department of English and Humanities, invites all to a lecture titled Jyotirmayi Devi’s’ Epar Ganga Opar Ganga Triumphs, Ruptures, and Trauma by Professor Subhoranjan Dasgupta

The Department of English and Humanities, invites you to a lecture titled Jyotirmayi Devi’s’ Epar Ganga Opar Ganga Triumphs, Ruptures, and Trauma by Professor Subhoranjan Dasgupta Subhoranjan Dasgupta is a Former Professor of Human Sciences at the Institute of Development Studies, Kolkata. Professor Dasgupta’s book on Akhtaruzzaman Elias was published by University Press Limited, Dhaka, making him one of the first critics to introduce the novelist to readers in English.

Professor Dasgupta’s talk is based on his paper that is divided into two sections. In the first, the importance of Jyotirmayi Devi’s novel on the partition of India, Epar Ganga Opar Ganga, is explained in the broader contexts of the literature of partition, a genre whose focus has been on the related things of dislocation and violence. In the second, the novel is analyzed to demonstrate how the subject of dislocation and violence has been explored with insight and sensitivity. What links the two parts is the conviction that the literature of exile and rupture is not only a record of nightmare, but also a depiction of the indomitable struggle of the victims, who often emerged triumphant after the dark night of trauma.   

Programme:
Date: Wednesday, 26 February, 2020
Time: 3:30—5:30 p.m.
Venue: Seminar Room (19th Floor, Building # 2),
BRAC University 66, Mohakhali C/A, Dhaka 1212