Rabindranath Tagore in the 21st Century (eBook)
X, 288 Seiten
Springer India (Verlag)
978-81-322-2038-1 (ISBN)
Debashish Banerji is Professor of Indian Studies and Dean of Academic Affairs at the University of Philosophical Research, Los Angeles. He is also Adjunct Faculty in Asian Art History at the Pasadena City College and Research Fellow in Asian and Comparative Studies at the California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco. Banerji is the author of The Alternate Nation of Abanindranath Tagore (Sage, 2010) and Seven Quartets of Becoming: A Transformative Yoga Psychology Based on the Diaries of Sri Aurobindo (DKPW and Nalanda, 2012). As an independent art curator, he has curated a number of exhibitions of Indian and Japanese art in the U.S. and India. His articles on South Asian art history, culture studies and consciousness studies have appeared in various magazines, journals and anthologies. To know more about him, visit http://www.debashishbanerji.com.
This critical volume addresses the question of Rabindranath Tagore's relevance for postmodern and postcolonial discourse in the twenty-first century. The volume includes contributions by leading contemporary scholars on Tagore and analyses Tagore's literature, music, theatre, aesthetics, politics and art against contemporary theoretical developments in postcolonial literature and social theory. The authors take up themes as varied as the implications of Tagore's educational vision for contemporary India; new theoretical interpretations of gender, queer elements, feminism and subalternism in Tagore's literary and social expressions; his language use as a vehicle for a dialogue between positivism, Orientalism and other constructs in the ongoing process of globalization; the nature of the influence of Tagore's music and literature on national and cultural identity formation, particularly in Bengal and Bangladesh; and intersubjectivity and critical modernity in Tagore's art. This volume opens up a space for Tagore's critique and his creative innovations in present theoretical engagements.
Debashish Banerji is Professor of Indian Studies and Dean of Academic Affairs at the University of Philosophical Research, Los Angeles. He is also Adjunct Faculty in Asian Art History at the Pasadena City College and Research Fellow in Asian and Comparative Studies at the California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco. Banerji is the author of The Alternate Nation of Abanindranath Tagore (Sage, 2010) and Seven Quartets of Becoming: A Transformative Yoga Psychology Based on the Diaries of Sri Aurobindo (DKPW and Nalanda, 2012). As an independent art curator, he has curated a number of exhibitions of Indian and Japanese art in the U.S. and India. His articles on South Asian art history, culture studies and consciousness studies have appeared in various magazines, journals and anthologies. To know more about him, visit http://www.debashishbanerji.com.
Chapter 1. Introduction: Theory and the Performative Politics of Punctuation.- Chapter 2. The Rustle of Language.- Chapter 3. Translating Tagore: Shifting Paradigms.- Chapter 4. Two Giant Brothers.- Chapter 5. Tagore’s Idea of “World Literature”.- Chapter 6. Rethinking Cosmopolitan Modernity: Rabindranath Tagore on Nationalism and Internationalism.- Chapter 7. The Bauhaus, Rabindranath Tagore and his Paintings.- Chapter 8. Why Ratan fell in Love Unnoticed and Why Ashu was Ashamed: Tagore’s Short Fiction and the Ethics of Feeling.- Chapter 9. Remembering Robi: Childhood, Freedom and Rabindranath Tagore.- Chapter 10. The Educational Efforts of Rabindranath Tagore.- Chapter 11. The Delineation of the Female Subject in Rabindranath Tagore’s Novel Farewell, My Friend.- Chapter 12. Gender, Nation, and the Vicissitudes of Kalpana: Choreographing Womanly Beauty in Tagore’s Dance Dramas.- Chapter 13. Chitrangada and Contemporary Queer Appropriations of Tagore.- Chapter 14. Tagore and the North-East: Dialectics of Human Intellection and the Nature of Aesthetic Reflection.- Chapter 15. Rabindrasangeet and Modern Bengali Subjectivity.- Chapter 16. Tagore and National Identity Formation in Bangladesh.- Chapter 17. Tagore Through Portraits: An Intersubjective Picture Gallery.- Chapter 18. The Unanswered Question: Some Remarks on Tagore’s Late Style.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 15.12.2014 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Sophia Studies in Cross-cultural Philosophy of Traditions and Cultures | Sophia Studies in Cross-cultural Philosophy of Traditions and Cultures |
| Zusatzinfo | X, 288 p. 26 illus., 16 illus. in color. |
| Verlagsort | New Delhi |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Östliche Philosophie | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| Schlagworte | Contemporary approaches to Tagore • Feminism and Tagore • Intersubjectivity in Tagore's art • literary diction • Postmodern interpretation of Tagore • Queer theory and Tagore • Self and subjectivity in Tagore's portraits • Tagore and aesthetics • Tagore and Bangladeshi identity • Tagore and Bengali identity • Tagore and the Bauhaus • Tagore's educational reforms • Tagore's music |
| ISBN-10 | 81-322-2038-2 / 8132220382 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-81-322-2038-1 / 9788132220381 |
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