Beschreibung
This book will explore the centrality of poetry in the construction of the British-Bangladeshi identity. An examination of the relationship between language, politics and emotions in the case of the creation of Bangladesh, will make it clear that it is impossible to understand the Bengali identity without considering the social role of poetry in political activism. The paper will draw on elements of linguistic and cultural theory that share the theme of emotion and literature and their role in the construction and transformation of habitus. I will add to this by looking at it in the specific context of the use of poetry within British-Bangladeshi communities. This book discloses how a historical examination of the formation of the Bengali language reflects the culture and reality of immigration, colonialism and dispossession. In turn this will describe what experiential differences shape how the first and second generation British-Bangladeshi identity is enacted in the present UK society.
Autorenporträt
Farida Momtaz is a Writer, Poet and studied an MA in Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths. Her research focuses on the British Bangladeshi identity and experience. Through the lens of poetry and fiction, her research provides new ways of understanding creative processes that offer insights into human emotion, thought and action, and alternative futures.
