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Contextualizing Kazi Nazrul Islam’s Bartaman Visva Sahitya in the ‘World’ of World Literature

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Last updated: 04 Jan 2025

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Studies in World Literature

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World literature is conceptualized and captured within different temporalities in contemporary conjecture. In January 1827, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe first conceptualized the term Weltliteratur in a conversation with his disciple Johann Peter Eckermann about Chinese novels to understand the upcoming possibilities of the nature of world literature. On the other hand, contemporary critics - David Damrosch, Pheng Cheah, and Baidik Bhattacharya - have started critiquing the term to locate current paradigms of world literature in their respective writings. Based on their arguments, this study would investigate the different conceptual forces of world literature embedded in their respective writings. They argued that the existing concept of world literature is not worldly enough and proposed alternative concepts of world literature to actualize the idea across the universe's geographical, political, social, and economic boundaries. Borrowing these critics' opinions, this paper tends to investigate the works of a particular regional author named Kazi Nazrul Islam, who is considered the Bidrohi Kobi (‘Rebel Poet') of West Bengal, a state of India. This paper would study the cohesive nature of Nazrul's Bartaman Visva Sahitya (‘Contemporary Literature') in the light of David Damrosch, Pheng Cheah, and Baidik Bhattacharya's writings which disseminate the sense of inclusivity and push the limit of worldliness in world literature.

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10.21608/tjhss.2022.266933

Keywords

World, literature, Cohesiveness, Inclusivity, paradigms, Critique

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ARINDAM

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SAHA

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Department of English, Pondicherry Central University

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sahaarindam18@gmail.com

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3

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4

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37311

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2022-10-01

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2022-01-05

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2022-10-01

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36

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43

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2636-4239

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2636-4247

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Transcultural Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences

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Contextualizing Kazi Nazrul Islam’s Bartaman Visva Sahitya in the ‘World’ of World Literature

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22 Jan 2023