In Search of Creative Commons : Crisis, Catastrophe and Responsive Literature...

by Sanchayita Paul Chakraborty

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In Search of Creative Commons : Crisis, Catastrophe and Responsive Literature in India, Proceedings of the Icssr Funded International Conference 2023, Hardcover by Chakraborty, Dhritiman (EDT); Paul Chakraborty, Sanchayita (EDT); Mishra, Mukunda (EDT), ISBN 9819779766, ISBN-13 9789819779765, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US This book contains selected papers presented at the international conference titled 'In Search of Creative Commons: Crisis, Catastrophe, and Responsive Literature in India', held at the Abid Ali Khan Centre for Archive and Translation of Cultures, Gour Mahavidyalaya (College) from 31 August to 2 September, 2023 in collaboration with the Department of English, Dr. Meghnad Saha College. The conference was funded by the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR). In this book, three basic questions are considered. First, as humans try to live in-and-through catastrophes and exceptional situations in the contemporary world, what new perspective can literature as a creative form offer for healing and restorative purposes? Second, what new idioms and narrative styles, massive crises such as famine, partition, migration, the decimation of forests, rivers, and the disappearance of villages held up in creative articulations in colonial and postcolonial times in India? Can these representations be called “responsive literature”? Further, and this is the third major contention of this book, how can responsive literature be thought of as a conceptual cate

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 2024
• Binding: Hardcover
• ISBN: 9789819779765
• Condition: Fine

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