74 research outputs found
Undecidable Spaces:: Rethinking Caste and the Technologies of Abandonment in Manoranjan Byapari
No full textOrganization of space in a modern urban locale is apparently secular and unmotivated by any divine or religious principal. Yet it always functions on the basis of exclusion. Simultaneously the dread of the excluded returning to haunt the stability of the city structures its organization of space. In this paper we shall see how the pre-modern system of Casteism has similarities with as well as difference from the modern democratic system of governance across the world and its distinct form of abandonment. It shall also be suggested how abandonment becomes an indispensible technique through which a governmental apparatus comes into existence both in pre-modern Caste Society in Indian subcontinent as well as modern democracy. This work shall focus on Bengali Dalit author Manoranjan Byapari, coming from Namashudra, a Dalit subcaste in Bengal to show how autobiographical form of writing resurfaces the quintessential question of caste pushed back in modern normative arrangement of space
Nabarun Bhattacharya: Aesthetics and Politics in a World after Ethics
No full textThe 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
Nabarun Bhattacharya: Aesthetics and Politics in a World after Ethics
No full textThe 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
Toxic ecologies of the Global South: the Ecogothic in Nabarun Bhattacharya's Toy City
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Strategic Outsiderism of Fyatarus: Performances of Resistance by "Multitudes" after ‘Empire’
No full textThis paper would talk about a transition from a pattern of life where there were limited resources, possibilities and aspirations, to one which promises uninterrupted flow of capital and resources in the present context of West Bengal. The Communist Party of India (Marxist) came to power in Bengal in 1978 after the period of Emergency with promises and hopes for the oppressed classes. However with the emergence of neo-liberal form of capitalism, the Left party, just as the Right, could not but respond to the necessity for transformation towards a post-Fordist economy, characterized more by consumption and less by production. In this re-conceptualization of capital, the concern that has to be addressed is that of marginalization and resistance. This essay would discuss how this resistance would emerge from the existential locations that could not be accommodated within the nexus of dominant power structure, resulting in breakdown in communication between state and its multitudes. These locations emerge from structures of deprivation internal to the Empire. This would be illustrated through a series of short stories by Nabarun Bhattacharya which talks about a group of fictitious flying characters called ‘fyatarus’. They are people variously marginalized and they participate together in acts of damage that emerge out of immediacy rather than any coherent political program.
Keywords: Transition; Resistance; Multitudes; Empire; Marxism; Emergency; Existential; Political Society; Post-Fordism; Communication
Nabarun Bhattacharya's Poems
No full textTraffic Signal
Tampered Utensil
Disabled Three
A Family Poem
Killing Fields
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