The objective of this lecture is to analyze how Tahmima Anam’s novel The Good Muslim reinvents or re-tells the violent history of the Bangladesh Liberation War and its aftermath by constituting time in a verbal structure where time is unhinged from its supposed neutrality to rupture the present inflected with the majoritarian idea of the national imaginary. It also seeks to ask as to what extent the temporality of this historical incident constructs/deconstructs different identities and their relation to the dominant regimes of temporality? Narrating the traumas of the war, the rage of military coups and counter coups a decade after the war upto the year 1992 when Bangladesh re-establishes its parliamentary democracy, Anam tries to excavate the nation’s past in the temporal memorization of her characters. These competing forces of the secular and the sacred defining the project of nation-building find a crude expression in this novel as it envisages the new-born nation of Bangladesh constantly arguing against itself.

Topic: War, Violence and Distorted Identity: Reading Tahmima Anam By Ankita Dubey
Time: Feb 27, 2022 06:00 PM Istanbul

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