Modernist Transitions: Cultural Encounters between British and Bangla Modernist Fiction from 1910s to 1950s
(Hardback)
Publishing Details
Modernist Transitions: Cultural Encounters between British and Bangla Modernist Fiction from 1910s to 1950s
By (Author) Subhadeep Ray
Edited by Goutam Karmakar
Bloomsbury India
Bloomsbury Academic India
30th January 2024
India
Classifications
Professional and Scholarly
Non Fiction
Literary studies: postcolonial literature
Comparative literature
Physical Properties
Hardback
260
Width 135mm, Height 216mm
Description
This volume is a critical reader, focusing on the continuities and discontinuities, confirmations and confrontations, crossovers and collisions, appropriations, adaptations and assimilations in the cultural transitions between British and Bangla vernacular modernist fiction within the context of the imperial modernity of the first half of the 20th century. The volume, consisting of critical essays aspires to illuminate, from multiple but intersecting perspectives, those thematic and structural areas where these two kinds of literary modernism, each aesthetically diverse, historically segmented by onslaughts of wars and other outbreaks of suffering and violence, and ideologically convoluted, but conditioned in many ways by common socio-historical catastrophes and promises, interact with each other to constitute an aesthetics of motion and dissonance. Essays cut across literary criticism to employ interdisciplinary approaches, as they blur the boundaries between histories, biographies and fictional narratives, between individual ethics in and outside the fictional world, between imagined and living communities, between real and generic politics, between the home and the world, and between the corporeal and the cultural. These essays interrogate the mastery in literary techniques, narrative motives and dualities, major and minor genres, (de)formations of canons in respect of the worldliness formed by the textual incorporation of the intricate imperial relationships between the United Kingdom and Bangla.
Author Bio
Subhadeep Ray is Associate Professor in the Department of English, Bidhan Chandra College, Kazi Nazrul University, Asansol, India, and Visiting Professor at the Department of English, Kazi Nazrul University, Asansol, India. Goutam Karmakar is an NRF Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa.
