Ageless Hero, Sexless Man
A Possible Pre-history and Three Hypotheses on Satyajit Ray's Feluda
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11677355 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sayandeb Chowdhury (0000-0003-4152-6925, Ambedkar University Delhi, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 109-130 |
| Publication date | 2015-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | South Asian Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0275-9527 • E-ISSN: 2573-9476 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/02759527.2015.11933006 |
| OpenAlex | W2773004636 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 5 |
This paper offers a critique of Satyajit Ray's literature for young adults, a major part of which was dedicated to his popular and favorite sleuth, Feluda. The primary contention of this paper is that, since it was conceived on the pages of the Ray family magazine Sandesh, the Feluda stories have followed a rather taut, moral architecture that cannot be explained only in terms of categories that literature for young adults or children permit. The first part of the paper discusses at length the possible origins and formative influences of Ray's sleuth. The second part proposes three hypotheses that consider the entrenched phallocentrism and gentrified eco-system of the stories as both a psychoanalytic and a cultural problematic
Aesthetics · Art · Epistemology · Formative assessment · HERO · Literature · Pedagogy · Psychoanalysis · Psychoanalytic theory · Sociology · Philosophy · Psychology · Themes in Literature Analysis
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0.5 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2024 (3) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |