The Poetry of Nissim Ezekiel

2002
The Poetry of Nissim Ezekiel
Author: A. Raghu
Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Dist
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2002
Genre:
ISBN: 9788126900862
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Nissim Ezekiel Is Probably The Most Famous Living Indian Poet In English. Displaying A Dedication Of Heroic Dimensions To His Vocation, He Has Created An Oeuvre Remarkable For Its Range And Depth. He Was Responsible For Spearheading The Modernist Revolution In Indian Poetry In English. All But Divorcing His Wife, Denying His Family Time And Commitment, Creating And Fighting Enemies, Ezekiel Has Served The Muse Indefatigably And Evangelically, And At Great Personal Cost, For He Is As Much Activist For Poetry As Poet. He Has Published The Work Of Others, Edited Journals, Held Offices In Literary Organizations, Selected Poetry For Magazines, Advised Publishing Houses And Helped And Guided Generations Of Poets. Besides, Ezekiel Has Made Significant Contributions As Playwright, Prose Writer, Critic, Translator And Teacher. The Poetry Of Nissim Ezekiel Is A Product Of A. Raghu S Close Familiarity With The Work Of The Poet As Well As His Long Interaction With The Man. The Book Carries Out A Thorough Thematic And Stylistic Analysis Of The Corpus Of Ezekiel, Seeking To Effect A Comprehensive Assessment Of The Same. Efforts Are Made To Foreground The Corpus Against The Tradition Of Indian Poetry In English And To Establish The Work Of Ezekiel As The Main Link Between Pre-Independence Indian Poetry In English And Its Post-Independence Counterpart. Ever Willing To Battle It Out, Raghu Takes On Some Of The Biggest Names In The Contemporary Literary World Of India To Craft A Book Which Is Provocatively Brilliant. The Poetry Of Nissim Ezekiel Will Remain The Book On Ezekiel S Verse For A Very Long Time To Come.

The Calcutta Kerani and the London Clerk in the Nineteenth Century

2020-09-27
The Calcutta Kerani and the London Clerk in the Nineteenth Century
Author: Sumit Chakrabarti
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2020-09-27
Genre: History
ISBN: 1000193683
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This book examines the location and representation of the colonial clerk or the kerani within the cultural and social space of nineteenth century colonial India. It provides a comparative history of the clerk in Calcutta vis-à-vis the clerk in contemporary London in order to understand the manifestations of modernity in these two disparate but intimately related spaces. The volume traces the socio-historical life of the clerk in the newly emerged city-space of Calcutta and reveals how the Bengali kerani became a complex and distinct figure of bureaucratic and colonial modernity. It analyses the techniques of surveillance and ethical training given to the native clerks and offers insights into the role of education in the production and dissemination of knowledge and hegemony in the colonial setting. The author, through a reading of clerk manuals, handbooks and literary representations, highlights the class and cultural identity of the English educated colonial clerk in the new city-space. He also focuses on the ambivalence and unreliability of the clerk or colonial babu who became complicit and gave legitimacy to the empire while personifying a complex modernity within the networks of the colonial administration. This book will be of great interest to students and researchers of colonial and imperial history, literature, cultural studies, city studies, British studies, area studies, commonwealth studies and South Asian studies, particularly those interested in colonial Bengal.