Baidik Bhattacharya
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 335331 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Baidik Bhattacharya |
| PRENOMES | Baidik |
| SOBRENOME | Bhattacharya |
| ASSINATURA | BHATTACHARYA B |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Delhi |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 13 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 16 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 12 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2006 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Colonialism, World Literature, and the Making of the Modern Culture of Letters
In a radical and ambitious reconceptualization of the field, this book argues that global literary culture since the eighteenth century was fundamentally shaped by colonial histories. It offers a comprehensive account of the colonial inception of the literary sovereign – how the realm of literature was thought to be separate from history and politics – and then follows that narrative through a wide array of different cultures, multilingual archiv…
Radical Illegibility and Democratic Futures
This essay reads the novels of Orhan Pamuk and J.M. Coetzee to interrogate the idea of a universal aesthetic regime. In recent years, the idea of a modern aesthetic regime that shapes the contours of literary forms and their reception within the paradigm of universal readability has been made popular by Jacques Rancière and, to a lesser extent, Alain Badiou. Such a universal paradigm has also been aligned with the conditions of democratic politic…
Somapolitics
This essay identifies and explores a new paradigm of imperial crime management (and eventually of colonial governance more broadly) in the second half of the nineteenth century that emerged at the cusp of criminal anthropology, imperial culture, and fiction. I call this new paradigm "somapolitics" because of its enormous emphasis on the materiality of the criminal body (the soma as opposed to the more elusive psyche) and suggest that it needs to …
Reading Rancière
This essay critically interrogates Jacques Rancière’s claim that the modern idea of literature found its own being when it became conscious of the “democratic petrification” of literariness in the early decades of the nineteenth century. I make two related points vis-à-vis Rancière’s argument: first, I demonstrate that he insufficiently imagines the knowledge paradigms informing this allegedly democratic petrification of literature and ignores vi…
On Comparatism in the Colony
Who owns Gramsci? Response to Timothy Brennan
We would like to thank Timothy Brennan for his extended response to our recent volume, The Postcolonial Gramsci, though it was disheartening to see that he has fundamentally misrepresented our proj
The Postcolonial Gramsci
Introduction: The Postcolonial Gramsci Neelam Srivastava and Baidik Bhattacharya I. Gramsci and Postcolonial Studies 1. Il Gramsci meridionale Robert JC Young 2. Provincializing the Italian Reading of Gramsci Paolo Capuzzo and Sandro Mezzadra 3. The Travels of the Organic Intellectual: The Black Colonized Intellectual in George Padmore and Frantz Fanon Neelam Srivastava 4. The Secular Alliance: Gramsci, Said and the Postcolonial Question Baidik B…
Problematizing Realism in Early Bengali Novels
This essay revisits the question of realism in early Bengali novels, with special attention to Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay's Bishbriksha or The Poison Tree (1872–3) as a case study. The argument is twofold: First, I argue that the contingent form emerges through complex negotiations with the time of colonial modernity and the available literary tradition. Second, I demonstrate that Bankim uses certain irregularities of the form to force it into a…
V. S. Naipaul and Fictions of Subaltern Diaspora
Books
Public penology
This article reads the unusual public nature of a recent event of capital punishment in India to think about the modes of postcolonial biopolitics in this age of globalization. It engages with influential theoretical work by authors such as Foucault, Agamben and Mbembe to articulate its own position and to suggest new theoretical paradigms. It argues that contemporary modes of postcolonial biopolitics need to be seen as emerging from and somewhat…
Naipaul’s New World
Research Article| August 01 2006 Naipaul’s New World: Postcolonial Modernity and the Enigma of Belated Space BAIDIK BHATTACHARYA BAIDIK BHATTACHARYA Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Novel (2006) 39 (2): 245–267. https://doi.org/10.1215/ddnov.039020245 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions …
Jokes Apart
This paper revisits Orientalist discourses with a specific concern: to explore the unresolved relationship between Orientalism and colonial regimes. This exploration involves questions of representation, the status of reality and exteriority in a discourse like Orientalism, and the assertion of truth within a discursive field. I read a set of parodic texts by the noted Bengali satirist Rajshekhar Basu, which stage an inverted reality of coloniali…
On Comparatism in the Colony
Jokes Apart
This paper revisits Orientalist discourses with a specific concern: to explore the unresolved relationship between Orientalism and colonial regimes. This exploration involves questions of representation, the status of reality and exteriority in a discourse like Orientalism, and the assertion of truth within a discursive field. I read a set of parodic texts by the noted Bengali satirist Rajshekhar Basu, which stage an inverted reality of coloniali…
Reading Rancière
This essay critically interrogates Jacques Rancière’s claim that the modern idea of literature found its own being when it became conscious of the “democratic petrification” of literariness in the early decades of the nineteenth century. I make two related points vis-à-vis Rancière’s argument: first, I demonstrate that he insufficiently imagines the knowledge paradigms informing this allegedly democratic petrification of literature and ignores vi…
Radical Illegibility and Democratic Futures
This essay reads the novels of Orhan Pamuk and J.M. Coetzee to interrogate the idea of a universal aesthetic regime. In recent years, the idea of a modern aesthetic regime that shapes the contours of literary forms and their reception within the paradigm of universal readability has been made popular by Jacques Rancière and, to a lesser extent, Alain Badiou. Such a universal paradigm has also been aligned with the conditions of democratic politic…
Who owns Gramsci? Response to Timothy Brennan
We would like to thank Timothy Brennan for his extended response to our recent volume, The Postcolonial Gramsci, though it was disheartening to see that he has fundamentally misrepresented our proj
Problematizing Realism in Early Bengali Novels
This essay revisits the question of realism in early Bengali novels, with special attention to Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay's Bishbriksha or The Poison Tree (1872–3) as a case study. The argument is twofold: First, I argue that the contingent form emerges through complex negotiations with the time of colonial modernity and the available literary tradition. Second, I demonstrate that Bankim uses certain irregularities of the form to force it into a…
Public penology
This article reads the unusual public nature of a recent event of capital punishment in India to think about the modes of postcolonial biopolitics in this age of globalization. It engages with influential theoretical work by authors such as Foucault, Agamben and Mbembe to articulate its own position and to suggest new theoretical paradigms. It argues that contemporary modes of postcolonial biopolitics need to be seen as emerging from and somewhat…
Naipaul’s New World
Research Article| August 01 2006 Naipaul’s New World: Postcolonial Modernity and the Enigma of Belated Space BAIDIK BHATTACHARYA BAIDIK BHATTACHARYA Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Novel (2006) 39 (2): 245–267. https://doi.org/10.1215/ddnov.039020245 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions …
Naipaul’s New World
Research Article| August 01 2006 Naipaul’s New World: Postcolonial Modernity and the Enigma of Belated Space BAIDIK BHATTACHARYA BAIDIK BHATTACHARYA Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Novel (2006) 39 (2): 245–267. https://doi.org/10.1215/ddnov.039020245 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions …
Jokes Apart
This paper revisits Orientalist discourses with a specific concern: to explore the unresolved relationship between Orientalism and colonial regimes. This exploration involves questions of representation, the status of reality and exteriority in a discourse like Orientalism, and the assertion of truth within a discursive field. I read a set of parodic texts by the noted Bengali satirist Rajshekhar Basu, which stage an inverted reality of coloniali…
Books
Public penology
This article reads the unusual public nature of a recent event of capital punishment in India to think about the modes of postcolonial biopolitics in this age of globalization. It engages with influential theoretical work by authors such as Foucault, Agamben and Mbembe to articulate its own position and to suggest new theoretical paradigms. It argues that contemporary modes of postcolonial biopolitics need to be seen as emerging from and somewhat…
Problematizing Realism in Early Bengali Novels
This essay revisits the question of realism in early Bengali novels, with special attention to Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay's Bishbriksha or The Poison Tree (1872–3) as a case study. The argument is twofold: First, I argue that the contingent form emerges through complex negotiations with the time of colonial modernity and the available literary tradition. Second, I demonstrate that Bankim uses certain irregularities of the form to force it into a…
V. S. Naipaul and Fictions of Subaltern Diaspora
The Postcolonial Gramsci
Introduction: The Postcolonial Gramsci Neelam Srivastava and Baidik Bhattacharya I. Gramsci and Postcolonial Studies 1. Il Gramsci meridionale Robert JC Young 2. Provincializing the Italian Reading of Gramsci Paolo Capuzzo and Sandro Mezzadra 3. The Travels of the Organic Intellectual: The Black Colonized Intellectual in George Padmore and Frantz Fanon Neelam Srivastava 4. The Secular Alliance: Gramsci, Said and the Postcolonial Question Baidik B…
Who owns Gramsci? Response to Timothy Brennan
We would like to thank Timothy Brennan for his extended response to our recent volume, The Postcolonial Gramsci, though it was disheartening to see that he has fundamentally misrepresented our proj
On Comparatism in the Colony
Reading Rancière
This essay critically interrogates Jacques Rancière’s claim that the modern idea of literature found its own being when it became conscious of the “democratic petrification” of literariness in the early decades of the nineteenth century. I make two related points vis-à-vis Rancière’s argument: first, I demonstrate that he insufficiently imagines the knowledge paradigms informing this allegedly democratic petrification of literature and ignores vi…
Somapolitics
This essay identifies and explores a new paradigm of imperial crime management (and eventually of colonial governance more broadly) in the second half of the nineteenth century that emerged at the cusp of criminal anthropology, imperial culture, and fiction. I call this new paradigm "somapolitics" because of its enormous emphasis on the materiality of the criminal body (the soma as opposed to the more elusive psyche) and suggest that it needs to …
Radical Illegibility and Democratic Futures
This essay reads the novels of Orhan Pamuk and J.M. Coetzee to interrogate the idea of a universal aesthetic regime. In recent years, the idea of a modern aesthetic regime that shapes the contours of literary forms and their reception within the paradigm of universal readability has been made popular by Jacques Rancière and, to a lesser extent, Alain Badiou. Such a universal paradigm has also been aligned with the conditions of democratic politic…
Colonialism, World Literature, and the Making of the Modern Culture of Letters
In a radical and ambitious reconceptualization of the field, this book argues that global literary culture since the eighteenth century was fundamentally shaped by colonial histories. It offers a comprehensive account of the colonial inception of the literary sovereign – how the realm of literature was thought to be separate from history and politics – and then follows that narrative through a wide array of different cultures, multilingual archiv…
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