Samrat Sengupta
Biographic Data
| ID | 6368571 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Samrat Sengupta |
| GIVEN NAMES | Samrat |
| FAMILY NAME | Sengupta |
| SIGNATURE | SENGUPTA S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Sidho-Kanho-Birsha University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Can We Think of a Plastic Subaltern? Denaturing Marginality and Resistance in Dalit Narratives
Following Ranjan Ghosh’s The Plastic Turn and employing it in the light of other thinkers on plasticity—James Martell, Clayton Crockett, and Catherine Malabou—the article connects the notion of plasticity with new materialist thinking and object-oriented ontology. Critiquing the idea of “nature” in dualistic thinking of the human consciousness versus the world around, plastic, as an artificially generated material, can become a way of thinking th…
From Xenofeminism to Domestic Realism
This paper discusses the recent texts of Helen Hester, a contemporary feminist theorist, in relation to the writings of Laboria Cuboniks, a feminist collective she was a member of. On the one hand, I critically discuss some of the main concepts underlying xenofeminism, a contemporary strand of feminism revolving around the refunctionalization of technology and the introduction of neo-rationalist tenets in feminist thought, developed by the collec…
Understanding the Disaster Unconscious
The paper situates the massacre of Dalit refugees of Marichjhapi Island (1978-79) in West Bengal, India through a multidisciplinary reading of Amitav Ghosh’s novel The Hungry Tide (2004) along with local history, vernacular literature, reports and experiential narratives. The refugees from East Pakistan/Bangladesh who settled on the island of Marichjhapi at Sundarbans (currently one of the most ecologically endangered places on Earth) were forcef…
Hypereventing History
The proposed article would attempt to draw a relationship between the political and ecological disaster through select Bengali Dalit migrant narratives. Narratives of Bengali Dalit migrant writers like Manohar Mouli Biswas or Jatin Bala, dislocated from East Pakistan/Bangladesh to India, suggest in their narratives how an event like the Partition of Indian subcontinent makes the caste subalterns permanently precarious and vulnerable before natura…
Nabarun Bhattacharya
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…
Technification of Knowledge and Knowledge as Technology
In the very act of pronouncing the word Uni-Versity the uni- in university motivates the versity – the becoming of the verse as memory – as the act of foregrounding knowledge and its continuity in time – the ontology as well as epistemology of culture and society. But at the same time the uni- is in conflict with the verse making – the versity. This double gesture produces the space of the university as an impossible, contingent and precarious sp…
Hypereventing History
The proposed article would attempt to draw a relationship between the political and ecological disaster through select Bengali Dalit migrant narratives. Narratives of Bengali Dalit migrant writers like Manohar Mouli Biswas or Jatin Bala, dislocated from East Pakistan/Bangladesh to India, suggest in their narratives how an event like the Partition of Indian subcontinent makes the caste subalterns permanently precarious and vulnerable before natura…
Nabarun Bhattacharya
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…
Technification of Knowledge and Knowledge as Technology
In the very act of pronouncing the word Uni-Versity the uni- in university motivates the versity – the becoming of the verse as memory – as the act of foregrounding knowledge and its continuity in time – the ontology as well as epistemology of culture and society. But at the same time the uni- is in conflict with the verse making – the versity. This double gesture produces the space of the university as an impossible, contingent and precarious sp…
Understanding the Disaster Unconscious
The paper situates the massacre of Dalit refugees of Marichjhapi Island (1978-79) in West Bengal, India through a multidisciplinary reading of Amitav Ghosh’s novel The Hungry Tide (2004) along with local history, vernacular literature, reports and experiential narratives. The refugees from East Pakistan/Bangladesh who settled on the island of Marichjhapi at Sundarbans (currently one of the most ecologically endangered places on Earth) were forcef…
Hypereventing History
The proposed article would attempt to draw a relationship between the political and ecological disaster through select Bengali Dalit migrant narratives. Narratives of Bengali Dalit migrant writers like Manohar Mouli Biswas or Jatin Bala, dislocated from East Pakistan/Bangladesh to India, suggest in their narratives how an event like the Partition of Indian subcontinent makes the caste subalterns permanently precarious and vulnerable before natura…
From Xenofeminism to Domestic Realism
This paper discusses the recent texts of Helen Hester, a contemporary feminist theorist, in relation to the writings of Laboria Cuboniks, a feminist collective she was a member of. On the one hand, I critically discuss some of the main concepts underlying xenofeminism, a contemporary strand of feminism revolving around the refunctionalization of technology and the introduction of neo-rationalist tenets in feminist thought, developed by the collec…
Can We Think of a Plastic Subaltern? Denaturing Marginality and Resistance in Dalit Narratives
Following Ranjan Ghosh’s The Plastic Turn and employing it in the light of other thinkers on plasticity—James Martell, Clayton Crockett, and Catherine Malabou—the article connects the notion of plasticity with new materialist thinking and object-oriented ontology. Critiquing the idea of “nature” in dualistic thinking of the human consciousness versus the world around, plastic, as an artificially generated material, can become a way of thinking th…
Law (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · South Asian Studies and Diaspora (4 works) · Ecology (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · History (3 works) · Linguistics (3 works)