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This book brings together critical essays on time, history and narrativity and the explorations of these concepts in philosophy, music, art and literature.
List of contents
1. Life: A Critique of Historical Reason 2. On Time and History: A Philosophico-Literary Hermeneutic 3. Deleuzean 'Difference': The 'Sense' of Flows in Cinema 4. Vaastu Shaastra: Continuum of Time Space and Existence 5. Undying Death: A World View of Shamanic vis-à-vis Indigenous Philosophic Traditions 6. Painting - Whitewashing: Liminal and Ephemera (l) Memories of the Martyr in the Mural Literature of Ireland 7. "Beaten, Humiliated, and Cannibalized": Representations of China in Chinese Fiction, 1917-1966 8. Narrative and History in Lawrence Durrell's
Avignon Quintet 9. Trailing Through Trauma: Musical Narratives of the Holocaust 10. History, Memory and Time: A Study of Qurratulain Hyder's
River of Fire 11. Journeys of the Travelling Tongue to Imaginary Homelands: Rectifying Asian Food History in the National Narrative in Canada 12. The Zebra Finch (Short Story) 13. In Conversation: Cecile Oumhani & Geetha Ganpathy
About the author
Jayita Sengupta is professor of English at Cooch Behar Panchanan Barma University, India. She was a British Council Fellow, UK in 2000, a Fulbright-Nehru Teaching Fellow at Stanford University, USA and a teaching fellow to National Kaosiung Normal University and Soochow University in Taiwan in 2013. As a member of the Society for Activities and Research on the Indian World (SARI), France, she has received travel grants for presentations at their Annual Colloquium several times. Her research interests include gender, cultures of memory, narrative and translation studies. Besides academic essays and books, she has also published her visual storybook, comprising four short stories with her paintings, titled
Shivelight and Other Stories, 2020. Her English translation of Bani Basu's novel, titled
Gandharvi: Life of a Musician, 2017 was nominated for the Muse India Translation Award in 2018. Jayita is also a Mentor of the Indian Knowledge Systems, a division of the Ministry of Education and is actively engaged in guiding the short research projects of the scholars selected for IKS Internships Programme.
Summary
This book brings together critical essays on time, history and narrativity and the explorations of these concepts in philosophy, music, art and literature.
