Book Review: Fakrul Alam, Reading Literature in English and English Studies in Bangladesh: Postcolonial Perspectives

This book is what one would call rojak in the Malay language, a scholarly smørgasbord, or a kind of thali of different dishes. It brings together published and unpublished critical writings, including essays, reviews, conference papers and an introduction for a book from 2007 to 2021. All of this is written by a well-known Bangladeshi academic, who suggests that this work is a sequel to Imperial Entanglements and Literature in English of 2007, a previous anthology by the same Dhaka-based boutique publisher that compiled Alam’s scholarly contributions from 1980 to 2007. The book has 25 chapters, divided into 4 major parts, and comes with a ‘Prefatory Note’ and an ‘Introduction’ by the author.