Publication

2020 - Bloomsbury Publishing India Pvt. Ltd.

Language

English

Word Count

71,000 words, Guess

Page Count

284 pages

Identifiers

Classifications

  • LCCPK1730.14.A775 N33 2020

Description

"The book aims to introduce the Bengali writer (1948-2014) to a global audience through some of his short stories and poems in English translation and a series of critical essays on his works. A political commitment to literature frames Nabarun Bhattacharya's aesthetic project and the volume wishes to tease out the various perspectives on this complex meeting of politics and aesthetics. Be it the novel on dogs or those on petro-pollution and the machine, the political question in Nabarun echoes significant contemporary issues, such as animal rights, global warming and techno-capitalism. This opens up the possibility of questioning the traditional paradigm of humanist values in a world of catastrophic and violent encounters such as nuclear war or holocaust, which keeps returning in Nabarun's works"--

Subjects

Topics

AfricanLiterary StudiesPostmodern LiteratureComparative literatureCriticism and interpretationAsian and Postcolonial LiteraturesIndic literature, history and criticism

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