Akhtaruzzaman Elias English 2008

This work not only proble-matises the way resistances have been shaped by an overarching national-liberation pradigm but also suggests the need to shift that paradigm now. Pothik Ghosh contructs his arguments thorough his critical-interpretative reading of the novels of Bangladesh writer Akhtaruzzaman Elias and by comparing the politico-aesthetic vision engendered by them with the cinema of Indian filmmaker Ritwik Ghatak. For Elias, the idiom of national liberation is important enough not to be rejected. But it is, at the same time, not so significant as to be fully embraced. The book argues for the need to understand resistance as a process and anti-colonialism as a cry against forcible extraction of surplus value before it's seen as a demand for national-political