Brinda Bose

Bishnupriya Ghosh

The editors are committed to destroying perceptions and stereotypes of third world women as passive victims who need to be "liberated" by Western feminists. The essays address cases in which women have challenged and resisted the political formations-nationalist struggles, revolutions, religious fundamentalist practices, and authoritarian regimes-that shape their daily lives. Each critic presents a close reading of the circumstances under which the feminist writers and film-makers.

Feminist Dialogues on Third World Women's Literature and Film

Interventions

Here are some broken lines, soaked and fermented in a city. Call them what you will-a scrapheap of reverie, monologue, dialogue, remnant, remainder. They nip at the mythic crow of Calcutta: its ancient mariner, the chronicler of its many lives. These 'fragments' are markers of time past and present, in a city that the writer touches and watches incessantly. She leaves it always to come back; its tales turn, but do not die. Close ones die, intimacies die and are reborn, homes die and are resurrected, or are found again elsewhere for a moment-or a lifetime. The crow, and the word, leave traces of this corporeal, fabular city on a hot and humid sky-ravaged, insouciantly tender, resilient. Calcutta, Crow and other fragments is Brinda Bose's debut chapbook. Bose grew up in Calcutta. She studied literature at Presidency College in the city, and then at Oxford and Boston universities. She currently teaches at the Centre for English Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi. She has written on literature and cinema, gender/sexualities, modernisms and the humanities; she reads a lot of poetry and would call this intrepid exercise its very distant, disinherited cousin.

Calcutta, Crow and Other Fragments

Subhabrata Bhattacharyya

The first comprehensive assessment of the diverse sexual practices of India: transsexual, homosexual and heterosexual.

The Politics of Sexualities in Contemporary India

The Phobic and the Erotic

Amitav Ghosh: Critical Perspectives Presents A Wide Range Of Incisive Scholarly Criticism On The Eminent Indian Writer'S Work To Date. With An Introduction That Places Amitav Ghosh In The Context Of His Historical/Cultural/ Social/Political Times, This Anthology Brings Together Both Established And New Critics In Their Perceptive Grasp Of Ghosh'S Extraordinary Oeuvre Of Fiction, Staring From The Circle Of Reason(1986) Through The Shadow Lines(1988), In An Antique Land(1992)And The Calcutta Chromosome(1996) To The Fairly Recent The Glass Palace(2000), Ghosh'S Best-Known And Most Influential Piece Of Political Writing. A Greater Emphasis Is Placed On The Shadow Lines And In An Antique Land, Which Have Received The Widest Critical Attention And Are, As Yet, The Ghosh Text Most Taught In University Courses Across The World. An Innovative 'Pedagogy' Section In This Collection Also Explores These Texts From Both Teachers' And Students' Perspectives, As They Play Out In Classrooms At Locations As Far Apart As Delhi And The American Mid-West. An Interview With Amitav Ghosh Animates This Anthology With An Authorial Intervention That - Perhaps Unwittingly - Both Validates And Questions The Praxis Of Literary Critism Today In Its Peculiarly Postmodern Predicament.

Brinda Bose

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