Azfar Hussain

rdf:langString Azfar Hussain

rdf:langString Azfar Hussain

rdf:langString Azfar Hussain

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rdf:langString Hussain at TSC, University of Dhaka

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rdf:langString আজফার হোসেন

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rdf:langString Writer, scholar, teacher

rdf:langString And every chain begins to break. Speak, this brief hour is long enough

rdf:langString Before the death of body and tongue:

rdf:langString Speak, 'cause the truth is not dead yet,

rdf:langString Speak, it is your own body.

rdf:langString Speak, it is your own tongue.

rdf:langString Speak, speak, whatever you must speak.

rdf:langString Speak, your lips are free.

rdf:langString The flame burns wild, the iron glows red;

rdf:langString The locks open their jaws,

rdf:langString Speak, your life is still yours. See how in the blacksmith's shop

rdf:langString "Speak" by Faiz Ahmad Faiz in Azfar Hussain's translation

rdf:langString Azfar Hussain (Bengali: আজফার হোসেন) is a Bangladeshi American theorist, critic, academic, bilingual writer, poet, translator, and public intellectual. He is Associate Professor of Integrative, Religious, and Intercultural Studies within the Brooks College of Interdisciplinary Studies at Grand Valley State University in Michigan, and vice-president of the Global Center for Advanced Studies (GCAS) and honorary GCAS Professor of English, World Literature, and Interdisciplinary Studies. Hussain has published, in both English and Bengali, hundreds of academic, popular, and creative pieces, including translations from non-western languages, and written on a wide range of topics from Native American poetics and politics to critiques of postmodern-poststructuralist-postcolonial theory to Marxist political economy to "third-world" literatures to globalization and imperialism to theories and practices of interdisciplinarity. He translated into Bengali the stories of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and the poems of Stéphane Mallarmé, Vicente Aleixandre, and Roque Dalton, among others. He also translated into English the lyrics of Kabir and the poems of Faiz Ahmad Faiz. Hussain is also an internationally known public speaker and a frequent subject of media interviews regarding Bangladeshi society, culture, and politics.