Humanity's Strings: Being, Pessimism, and Fantasy - Hardcover

Bhattacharjee, Ritwick

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9389000513 ISBN 13: 9789389000511

Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic India, 2020

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Interrogates the nature of Reality against Fantasy as the two are presented to and created by the Human consciousness; a consciousness that is in constant struggle with the omnipresence of misery and death.

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Ritwick Bhattacharjee is an assistant professor at the Department of English, Sri Guru Tegh Bahadur Khalsa College, University of Delhi, New Delhi. His research has been located around fantasy, philosophy, phenomenology, horror fiction, science fiction, Indian English novels and disability studies. He is the author of Humanity's Strings: Being, Pessimism, and Fantasy and a co-editor of Horror Fictions of the Global South: Cultures, Narratives and Representations with Saikat Ghosh, What Makes it Pop? Introduction to Studies in Popular Fiction with Srinjoyee Dutta, Science Fiction in India: Parallel Worlds and Postcolonial Paradigms with Shweta Khilnani and Reclaiming the Disabled Subject: Representing Disability in Short Fiction with Someshwar Sati and G.J.V. Prasad. He has been awarded the Prof. Meenakshi Mukherjee Memorial Award for his essay titled 'Politics of Translation: Disability, Language, and the Inbetween' published in the book Disability in Translation: The Indian Experience. His book Science Fiction in India: Parallel Worlds and Postcolonial Paradigms has been awarded the best academic book published in 2022 by the Federation of Indian Publishers and has been nominated for BLS book of the year and 2023 Idaho University Teaching Literature Book Award.

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• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic India
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2020
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 9389000513
• ISBN 13: 9789389000511
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 182
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