Trivium : Vol - 5 : No - 1 : Issue - 8
In this issue we have a selection of writings spanning a wide range of areas
of interest. Amlan Guhathakurta's essay examines the narratorial and
authorial performance of the amanuensis-cum-biographer of Sri
Ramakrishna, Shri Ma asserting that the mouthpiece of the guru himself
became a voice in his own right. Guhathakurta deftly examines how the
text transcends the limits of hagiography and can be read as polyphony a la
Bakhtin. Mihai Bacaran also examines the performativity, but this time in
the domain of music, or, to be precise, of imaginary music, a novelty
theorized by the avant-garde Romanian musician Octavian Nemscu. In the
light of this, Bacaran examines the imaginary music score of Darie Nemes
Bota called Urban Seashell and asserts how the distinction between
spectator and artist breaks down in the process. Biswadeep Chakraborty
focuses on the proliferation of popular culture in the hundred years after
the First World War, particularly concentrating on the evolution of video
games. In course of tracing the impact of war on culture Chakraborty also
discusses novels and films that drew the map of human misery in the wake
of the war. Debadrita Saha casts her net to capture the patriarchal fallacies
in the representation of Constance Markievicz in W.B. Yeats's poem
'Easter 1916' and Neil Jordan's representation of Kitty Kiernan as the
seductive Irish woman in his film Michael Collins. In the process she
examines the trope of Irish woman as seductive whore or stereotyped
suffering mother. The final essay in Bengali chooses to investigate the
functions of imagery in the Bengali poet and writer Jay Goswami's novels
in prose and poetry: Sanjhbatir Rupkathara and Jara Bristite Bhijechhilo.
Soumitra Chattopadhyay and SangeetaTripathi Mitra not only trace the
autobiographical elements in the novels, but also assert that the deft use of
imagery serves a number of functions in the two contemporary and
experimental Bengali novels.
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