Sourit Bhattacharya
Biographic Data
| ID | 3784463 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sourit Bhattacharya |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sourit |
| FAMILY NAME | Bhattacharya |
| SIGNATURE | BHATTACHARYA S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Edinburgh |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7485-1233 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Postcolonial Disaster”: Purdah, Precarity, and Hunger in Abu Ishaque’s Surja Dighal Bari ( The Ominous House )
The 1943 Bengal famine had severely changed the social landscape in rural Bengal. Thousands of peasants who mortgaged or sold their lands to the economic elite to migrate to Calcutta for food had to start over landless and precarious. Married women who were forcibly repudiated by their husbands ("talaq") during the famine had to abide by the religious law of purdah (of keeping women at home) and accepting death by hunger. Abu Ishaque's 1955 novel…
Pallavi Rastogi, Postcolonial Disasters: Narrating Catastrophe in the Twenty-First Century (2020): Review Essay
This review essay reads literary-critical works of what is broadly understood as ‘postcolonial disasters’. It outlines how literary critics in the last decades have drawn upon cultural-geographical and anthropological readings of disasters to develop critical frameworks around how literary writers have used style, form, and aesthetics to represent postcolonial catastrophes. It then offers a detailed review of Pallavi Rastogi’s 2020 monograph, Pos…
Regional Ecologies and Peripheral Aesthetics in Indian Literature: Tarashankar Bandyopadhyay’s Hansuli Banker Upakatha
Despite the wide availability of "regional novels" in India, academic scholarship in this area has been surprisingly lacking. For environmental literary scholars, this is unfortunate because regional narratives compellingly capture the conflicts between local social dynamics and global capitalist cultures, resulting in an aesthetic that is ecologically sensitive and stylistically complex. In this essay, I will first situate the Gandhian call for …
Nabarun Bhattacharya: Aesthetics and Politics in a World aft er Ethics
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 m…
Against his self, against his time: Modernist aesthetic, post-war London, and the failure of imagination in J. M. Coetzee’s Youth
J. M. Coetzee’s Youth (2002), born in the heated times of the reconciliation of races in South Africa, has invited scholarship primarily on two areas: the problem of storytelling and the nature of place. Its predominant aspects, modernism, and post-war London have hardly been taken up for an analytical discussion on the issues of land, race, and storytelling. These aspects merit attention for three specific reasons: to understand the nature of ex…
What postcolonial theory doesn't say
What postcolonial theory doesn’t say. Anna Bernard, Ziad Elmarsafy and Stuart Murray. New York: Routledge, 2016. Pp. 271. ISBN 9780415857970. £90 (hbk)
Regional Ecologies and Peripheral Aesthetics in Indian Literature: Tarashankar Bandyopadhyay’s Hansuli Banker Upakatha
Despite the wide availability of "regional novels" in India, academic scholarship in this area has been surprisingly lacking. For environmental literary scholars, this is unfortunate because regional narratives compellingly capture the conflicts between local social dynamics and global capitalist cultures, resulting in an aesthetic that is ecologically sensitive and stylistically complex. In this essay, I will first situate the Gandhian call for …
What postcolonial theory doesn't say
What postcolonial theory doesn’t say. Anna Bernard, Ziad Elmarsafy and Stuart Murray. New York: Routledge, 2016. Pp. 271. ISBN 9780415857970. £90 (hbk)
Against his self, against his time: Modernist aesthetic, post-war London, and the failure of imagination in J. M. Coetzee’s Youth
J. M. Coetzee’s Youth (2002), born in the heated times of the reconciliation of races in South Africa, has invited scholarship primarily on two areas: the problem of storytelling and the nature of place. Its predominant aspects, modernism, and post-war London have hardly been taken up for an analytical discussion on the issues of land, race, and storytelling. These aspects merit attention for three specific reasons: to understand the nature of ex…
Nabarun Bhattacharya: Aesthetics and Politics in a World aft er Ethics
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 m…
Regional Ecologies and Peripheral Aesthetics in Indian Literature: Tarashankar Bandyopadhyay’s Hansuli Banker Upakatha
Despite the wide availability of "regional novels" in India, academic scholarship in this area has been surprisingly lacking. For environmental literary scholars, this is unfortunate because regional narratives compellingly capture the conflicts between local social dynamics and global capitalist cultures, resulting in an aesthetic that is ecologically sensitive and stylistically complex. In this essay, I will first situate the Gandhian call for …
Pallavi Rastogi, Postcolonial Disasters: Narrating Catastrophe in the Twenty-First Century (2020): Review Essay
This review essay reads literary-critical works of what is broadly understood as ‘postcolonial disasters’. It outlines how literary critics in the last decades have drawn upon cultural-geographical and anthropological readings of disasters to develop critical frameworks around how literary writers have used style, form, and aesthetics to represent postcolonial catastrophes. It then offers a detailed review of Pallavi Rastogi’s 2020 monograph, Pos…
Postcolonial Disaster”: Purdah, Precarity, and Hunger in Abu Ishaque’s Surja Dighal Bari ( The Ominous House )
The 1943 Bengal famine had severely changed the social landscape in rural Bengal. Thousands of peasants who mortgaged or sold their lands to the economic elite to migrate to Calcutta for food had to start over landless and precarious. Married women who were forcibly repudiated by their husbands ("talaq") during the famine had to abide by the religious law of purdah (of keeping women at home) and accepting death by hunger. Abu Ishaque's 1955 novel…
Art (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies (3 works) · History (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · South Asian Cinema and Culture (2 works) · Archaeology (1 works) · Critical thought (1 works)