Nazrul’s Nonfiction Prose and the Question of Human Emancipation

1 Kazi Nazrul Islam (1899-1976)—one of the greatest Bengali poets—has by now been fully assimilated into the literary canon and even into public discourse in Bangladesh. He has been appropriated and institutionalized at more levels than one, as Nazrul remains the "national" poet of the country. But the canonization and institutional invocation of Nazrul have also run the risk