Azfar Hussain is a Bangladeshi-American theorist, critic, poet, translator and public intellectual who writes in both Bengali and English, an associate professor of interdisciplinary studies at Grand Valley State University in Michigan, vice-president of the Global Center for Advanced Studies, and summer distinguished professor of English and humanities at the University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh. He has published hundreds of academic, popular and creative pieces on Native American poetics, postmodern theory, Marxist political economy and the study of globalization and imperialism, and has translated Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Stephane Mallarme and others into Bengali as well as Kabirs lyrics and Faiz Ahmad Faizs poems into English.
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Azfar Hussain (Bengali: আজফার হোসেন, pronounced [azɸaɾ ɦosɛn]) is a Bangladeshi-American theorist, critic, poet, translator, and public intellectual who writes in both Bengali and English.
Practices Studied: Capitalism, Article body
Lenin, Antonio Gramsci, and Frantz Fanon, Azfar Hussain in his interdisciplinary work examines how such global systems as capitalism, imperialism/colonialism, racism, and patriarchy work in their interconnections, and how they affect the practice of everyday life both locally and globally, both economically and culturally, and he focuses on the ideas of revolutionary politics and radical social transformation.
Practices Studied: Colonialism, Article body
Lenin, Antonio Gramsci, and Frantz Fanon, Azfar Hussain in his interdisciplinary work examines how such global systems as capitalism, imperialism/colonialism, racism, and patriarchy work in their interconnections, and how they affect the practice of everyday life both locally and globally, both economically and culturally, and he focuses on the ideas of revolutionary politics and radical social transformation.
Practices Studied: Patriarchy, Article body
Lenin, Antonio Gramsci, and Frantz Fanon, Azfar Hussain in his interdisciplinary work examines how such global systems as capitalism, imperialism/colonialism, racism, and patriarchy work in their interconnections, and how they affect the practice of everyday life both locally and globally, both economically and culturally, and he focuses on the ideas of revolutionary politics and radical social transformation.
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