আফসার আমেদের ছোটগল্প : গ্রামজীবন ও বিপন্ন মানুষের স্বর/ Afsar Amed's short stories: Village life and the voices of the endangered people

Abstract

Afsar Ahmed has broken the traditional circle of contemporary Bengali fiction and found a completely unique and new path. The main focus of his research was the disruption of rural economy, politics and culture over time and the emergence of a completely new rural environment through it. He has very skill fully portrayed every crisis in the life of marginalized and lower caste people. In the story ‘Janasroot, Jalasroot’ he shows how natural calamities like floods threaten the existence of people as well as take away the human qualities within them and push them towards extreme mental degradation, depression and primitive struggle for survival. On the other hand, through the narrative ‘Jinnat Begum's Birahamilan’, he has highlighted the endless waiting, deprivation⁵ and severe emotional pain of the women left behind in the villages due to the migrant people who migrated to the cities in search of bread and sustenance. Apart from this, in this story a harsh reality of hegemony of patriarchal social structure, extreme contempt for women, gender inequality and brutal lust of landlords has become very naked. Again 'How much is the price of deep tube?' Through the story, he embodies the acute fear, existential crisis and psychological tension of the marginal and sharecroppers⁷ losing their land due to the profiteering invasion of the rural landlords due to the modernization of agriculture.