Bangladeshi Novels in English: Cultural Contact and Migrant Subjectivity

Bangladeshi Novels in English: Cultural Contact and Migrant Subjectivity is the first comprehensive study of Bangladeshi migration and diasporas through eight seminal Bangladeshi novels in English from the late twentieth and twenty-first centuries: Adib Khans Seasonal Adjustments and Spiral Road, Farhana H. Rahmans The Eye of the Heart, Monica Alis Brick Lane, Manzu Islams Burrow, Nashid Kamals The Glass Bangles, Zia H. Rahmans In the Light of What We Know, and Tahmima Anams The Bones of Grace. The book situates the study within the English-language literary history and linguistic ethnography of Bangladesh while unveiling the complexities of Bangladeshi Muslim migration from men, women, and childrens perspectives. It challenges the stereotyping of Bengali Muslim migrants as a failure of immigration and multiculturalism and offers a fresh view on cultural contact and the formation of migrant subjectivity at the intersections of gender, race, religion, class, culture, ethnicity, history, politics, and personality.