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245	0	0	_aHumanities, provocateur : _btowards a contemporary political aesthetics / _cedited by Brinda Bose.
260			_aNew Delhi : _bBloomsbury, _c2021.
300			_axi, 331 pages : _billustrations (black and white) ; _c23 cm
500			_aContributed articles.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505			_tIntroduction: Humanities, Provocateur - Brinda Bose Gleaning Plato and Proust, Bedfellows: 'Concept' and 'Idea' from the Classical to the Modern - Aveek Sen Jean Genet and Jean-Paul-Sartre: Writing in Resistance and the Practice of Theory - Michael Levenson Thinking with Cinema: Mani Kaul Reading Deleuze - Moinak Biswas Perforation If the Outsider is Deeply Within - Charles Russell Dissident Poetics, Experimental Excess: Jaakko Yli-Juonikas' Finnish Novel Neuromaani - Laura Piippo Declassing Art: Manik Bandyopadhyay and Communist Aesthetics in India - Rajarshi Dasgupta Caprice 'Vulva's School: Towards a Provisional Pedagogy - Sophie Seita Paraphernalia Weaponisation of the Body in Goldman, Blair and Almadhoun - Eyal Amiran Freeing the Image and Cinematic Justice: Non-Partitioned Aesthetics in Kamal Aljafari's Recollection - Heidi Grunebaum Descent The Homosexual and His Future (Cather, Clementi and Crisp) - Taylor Black Sapphic Lineages: Or, Notes for a Queer-Feminist Poetics - Brinda Bose Flux Translation's Dissidence: Miraji becomes Sappho - Geeta Patel Is there a Homosexual in the Text? - Rahul Sen Flesh This City, “Stinking Corpse”: Adonis's Poetics of Modernity and Death - Al-Khoder Al-Khalifa Eating Dissidence of Antonin Artaud: Towards a Poor Aesthetics - Soumyabrata Chowdhury Ephemera Nocturnals (A Reminiscence) - Anil Yadav, translated from the Hindi by Chinmaya Lal Thakur
520			_aThis highly original collection is a far cry from the demand on the literary humanities to offer the soothing hum of theory to a world of breaks, crises and pain. Instead, it exemplifies a way ahead for the critical humanities…. -Arjun Appadurai, New York University 'Doing the Humanities' comes to life in this passionate, provocative set of experiments in descriptive poetics. Failure, fantasy, freefall are reconceived as forms of aesthetic achievement across the creative arts.… -Ros Ballaster, University of Oxford ....This timely volume inspires a collective undertaking to learn 'to do' the humanities through the untimeliness of a work of art. A humanities that remains attentive to this form of techné will prove indispensable to remaking the world in the aftermath of a pandemic. -Premesh Lalu, University of the Western Cape ….exhilarating in the democratic breadth of its interests, the emotional fervour of its commitments and its yoking of systemic criticism to the work of poetic language. -Helen Small, University of Oxford How can the humanities make an intervention in such a time as this, when life as we have known it hangs in pandemic balance since the spring of 2020-and when contagion calls for distancing and isolation, while loneliness cries out for the solace of touch? Perhaps only by being, at once, fearless, critical, sorrowing, exultant, enraged, intimate. Humanities, Provocateur brings you fourteen essays and two creative pieces by established as well as younger scholars and writers from America, Europe, the Middle East, South Africa and South Asia, in a bracing invitation to a freefall of reading. They travel from classical literatures and philosophy to twentieth-century writing, cinema and critical-imaginative thinking, grouped whimsically around a set of provocations-Gleaning, Perforation, Caprice, Paraphernalia, Descent, Flux, Flesh, Ephemera-and welcome you to argue, to cherish or to distrust. Taking sharp, sparkling twists and turns in thought and style, this eclectic collection of writings incites you to be intellectually adventurous and destitute at the same time. And, invoking Dante, to never be afraid, for our fate is our gift.
530			_aAlso available as an e-book.
650		0	_aHumanities
650		0	_aLiterature
650		0	_aAesthetics in literature.
650		0	_xPhilosophy.
650		0	_xAesthetics.
700	1		_aBose, Brinda,
700	1		_eeditor.
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