Abdul Mannan Syed

Syed Manzoorul Islam

Ed. by Niaz Zaman, Independent University Bangladesh
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 10.3.2: Pakistani and Bangladeshi Writing and Culture.
Vol. editors: Claire Gallien (Université Paul Valéry Montpellier 3), Sarker Hasan Al Zayed (Independent University Bangladesh), Pavan Kumar Malreddy (J W Goethe University of Frankfurt), Delphine Munos (Université de Liège), Muneeza Shamsie (Independent Scholar - Asia), Niaz Zaman (Independent University Bangladesh)

Dates

Born 3 Aug 1943
Died 5 Sep 2010

Places

Born in Bangladesh
Active in Bangladesh

Activities

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Poet
Prose writer

Resources

Syed's Works

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After the partition of the Indian subcontinent in 1947, Dhaka had to start almost from scratch. The city had no art institution, no art gallery, no film studio or theatre hall; it had no literary journal worthy of mention, or regular publication of creative works. All this, however, changed as education and urbanism spread and the language movement of 1948-52 inspired people to fight for their rights, including that of cultural self-expression. By the late fifties, Dhaka had a thriving art scene, a nascent film industry, and was witnessing the inauguration of perhaps the most formative phase of its modernist literary tradition.

The 1960s began on a restless but positive note. A politically and culturally active middle class, driven by the idealism of democratic pluralism, secularism,

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Citation: Islam, Syed Manzoorul. "Abdul Mannan Syed". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 29 September 2021 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=14785, accessed 21 November 2024.]