Re-temporalising the Cultural in India

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The book looks at the different ways the temporal features in the existential exigencies of the human located within the definitive boundaries of Indianness. This has been done through an interrogation of different cultural artefacts that have been produced, across the space and time of the Indian nation, to look not only at representations of Time but how time (as the temporal) actually finds a play in them. Each act of the cultural becomes, in a sense, a relation of the very action of time. This way, the volume wishes to think, in a very pointed manner, how this play of the temporal defines the Indian Being and allow narratives, of different kinds and forms, to become. Each chapter in the volume seek to read the temporal action inside the contemporaneity of Indias existence since, for better or for worse, the west has taken a hold in. The global interaction that India has had to go through, either as a British colony or a world post-colony, has allowed a meshing in of the western philosophical conceptualisations of time with (and within) the Indian ones. The changes that it has wrought, then, become as important as those that have been rooted in a historical functioning of the nation.

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Ritwick Bhattacharjee is an Assistant Professor at the Department of English, Sri Guru Tegh Bahadur Khalsa College, University of Delhi. His research has been located around Fantasy, philosophy, phenomenology, horror fiction, science fiction, Indian English Novels, and Disability Studies. He is the author of Humanitys Strings: Being, Pessimism, and Fantasy and a co-editor for Horror Fictions of the Global South: Cultures, Narratives and Representations (with Saikat Ghosh) and What Makes it Pop Introduction to Studies in Popular Fiction (with Srinjoyee Dutta). He has two upcoming books: Science Fiction in India: Parallel Worlds and Postcolonial Paradigms (co-edited with Shweta Khilnani) and Reclaiming the Disabled Subject: Representing Disability in Short Fiction (co-written with Someshwar Sati and GJV Prasad). He has been awarded the Prof. Meenakshi Mukherjee Memorial award for his essay titled Politics of Translation: Disability, Language, and the Inbetween published in the book Disability in Translation: The Indian Experience. Srinjoyee Dutta is a doctoral scholar at the Centre for English Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University. Her areas of interest include Gender and Queer Theory, Poststructuralist and Postmodernist philosophy, Translation Studies, and Popular Fiction. She has been the winner of the prestigious C.D. Narasimhaiah Memorial prize, awarded by the Indian Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies for the best paper in a conference, for two consecutive years. She is the co-editor of What makes it Pop An Introduction to Studies in Popular Fiction (With Ritwick Bhattacharjee). She is also an avid translator and translates from Hindi to English.