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Modernist Transitions: Cultural Encounters between British and Bangla Modernist Fiction from 1910s to 1950s de Subhadeep Ray

Modernist Transitions: Cultural Encounters between British and Bangla Modernist Fiction from 1910s to 1950s

Editat de Subhadeep Ray, Goutam Karmakar
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 30 dec 2023

Lucrarea Modernist Transitions aduce o perspectivă proaspătă asupra modernismului literar, refuzând să îl trateze ca pe un fenomen izolat geografic sau cultural. Volumul, editat de Subhadeep Ray și Goutam Karmakar, investighează punctele de convergență și coliziune dintre ficțiunea modernistă britanică și cea vernaculară Bangla în perioada 1910-1950. Considerăm că valoarea centrală a acestei ediții rezidă în capacitatea de a evidenția modul în care catastrofele socio-istorice comune au modelat o estetică a disonanței în ambele spații culturale.

Din punct de vedere structural, volumul este organizat riguros pentru a ghida cititorul de la macro-paradigmele naționale spre micro-analize ale subiectivității. Prima parte, „Setting the Paradigms”, fixează cadrul teoretic prin analize asupra conexiunilor postcoloniale și a canonului bengalez. Cea de-a doua parte explorează intersecțiile dintre modernism și realism, abordând teme precum corporalitatea, alienarea și impactul războiului. Apreciem în mod deosebit eseul care compară viziunile lui Bonophul și D.H. Lawrence asupra sănătății și bolii, un exemplu clar de analiză comparativă transculturală.

Această abordare extinde cadrul propus de Indian Modernities de Nishat Zaidi, oferind o analiză mult mai focalizată pe dialogul specific dintre metropolă și colonie, spre deosebire de panorama lingvistică vastă a lucrării lui Zaidi. De asemenea, volumul completează tezele din British Fiction and Cross-Cultural Encounters de C. Snyder, demonstrând că modernismul nu a fost doar un produs urban, ci și unul rezultat din tensiunile imperiale directe. În contextul operei lui Subhadeep Ray, care în River Fiction of India a stabilit un nou gen literar bazat pe realitățile ecologice și mitice ale râurilor indiene, Modernist Transitions continuă efortul de a recupera și teoretiza specificul literar sud-asiatic în raport cu influențele globale.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9789356404380
ISBN-10: 9356404380
Pagini: 260
Dimensiuni: 142 x 224 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.42 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic India
Locul publicării:New Delhi, India

De ce să citești această carte

Această lucrare este esențială pentru cercetătorii și studenții interesați de literatura comparată și studiile postcoloniale. Cititorul câștigă o înțelegere profundă a modului în care modernismul britanic și cel bengalez s-au influențat reciproc sub presiunea imperiului. Este un instrument critic valoros care deconstruiește ierarhiile literare tradiționale, oferind o analiză aplicată pe texte și autori care au definit modernitatea în ambele emisfere.

Descriere

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.

Cuprins

Foreword: Transitioning To and From Modernism - Pramod K Nayar

Introduction: ScopesandLimitsof ModernistTransitions in the British- Bangla Context - SubhadeepRayandGoutamKarmakar

PartI: SettingtheParadigms: NationsandNarrations - - Editors' Introduction

1:ModernistWriters'(post)ColonialConnections: Aesthetics, Ethics, andPolitics- AmarAcheraiou

2:TheDiscoveryofF-ailingIndia: NehruandtheIndian Modernity- RitwickBhattacharjee

3: Bengali Modernist Fiction: Looking Through the Canon- Angshuman Kar

4:OnHeroWorshipandOurModernity: AReappraisalofDilip KumarRoy'sSelectMemoirs - SantanuBanerjee


PartII:'Everythingistheproperstuffoffiction':Intersections of Modernism and Realism in Narratives of Corporeality, Subjectivity, Alienation and War - Editors'Introduction

5:Modernity and Tradition in Select Fiction of Bonophul and Lawrence on Health, Illness and Treatment - SupritiDebnath

6:RevelationsinTextuality:Approachingthe'Literary'in Manada Devi's An Educated Woman in Prostitution and Katherine Mansfield's 'TheSingingLesson'- JemimaNasrin

7:FromDedalustoDhorai:ReadingModernistAlienationin James Joyce's Ulysses and Satinath Bhaduri's Dhorai Charit Manas - BipranarayanBhattacharyya

8:ModernismfromtheMargins:ReflectionsonBengaliLate-ModernismandtheSecond-World-WarViolenceinManikBandyopadhyay's'Panic'- ParthaSarathiNandi


Part III: Interplay Between Traditions and Genres of Modernist and Late-Modernist Fiction - Editors' Introduction

9:DidtheTwainMeet?:ModernismandChildren'sLiterature inTwentiethCentury BritainandBengal - StellaChitralekhaBiswas

10:DomesticModernism:Situating(Anti)HomeinWritingsof VirginiaWoolfand RokeyaSakhawatHossain - NilanjanaChatterjee, NibeditaMukherjee, and AninditaChatterjee

11: The Pitmen's Union: A Comparative Study of SelectCoalmineFictionsofD.H. LawrenceandSailajanandaMukhopadhyay - AratrikaGanguly

12:Modernism's Illegitimate Offspring: Genre Tropes, Detective Fiction, and Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay's Byomkesh Bakshi Series - AnimeshBag

Recenzii

The histories of Bangla and Britain have long been intertwined-both are key sites in the experience of modernity, industrialisation, empire and its postcolonial consequences. Both, as a consequence, produced in the 20th-century, rich literature that documented and imagined that experience. But there is also an asymmetry-for while English literature is well studied in Bangla, Bangla literature is not studied in Britain to the same extent. This collection of critical essays offers the opportunity to correct this asymmetry, and to consider the literatures of modernity across these two sites not just in comparison, but in complement to one another, opening discussions about nation and narration, intersections between autobiography and fiction, realism, literature and the domestic, and transitions away from colonial and postcolonial tropes. This volume will open up a new world of writing to many readers, and to others, set what they know in a new, and global, perspective.
Modernist Transitions: Cultural Encounters between British and Bangla Modernist Fiction from 1910s to 1950s is a much-awaited book. Bangla has always been known to reflect and even resist Western literary influences
through phases of its rich literary tradition. Hence a book that studies one of the major movements in Western literature-that of modernism- and compares both English and Bangla texts with reference to modernist
issues and tropes is definitely worth the wait. An area of research that several scholars would have pondered over has finally been given shape by Subhadeep Ray and Goutam Karmakar in this book. A must-read for
scholars and students interested in research in both English and Bangla and its comparative studies.

This innovative collection sheds new light on important questions across a number of disciplinary fields including history, postcolonial and literary studies. It raises new perspectives on modernism, imperialism, nationalism and cosmopolitanism.