Re-temporalising the Cultural in India
The book looks at the different ways the temporal features in the existential exigencies of the human located within the definitive boundaries of Indianness. This has been done through an interrogation of different cultural artefacts that have been produced, across the space and time of the Indian nation, to look not only at representations of Time but how time (as the temporal) actually finds a play in them. Each act of the cultural becomes, in a sense, a relation of the very action of time. This way, the volume wishes to think, in a very pointed manner, how this play of the temporal defines the Indian Being and allow narratives, of different kinds and forms, to become. Each chapter in the volume seek to read the temporal action inside the contemporaneity of India's existence since, for better or for worse, the west has taken a hold in. The global interaction that India has had to go through, either as a British colony or a world post-colony, has allowed a meshing in of the western philosophical conceptualisations of time with (and within) the Indian ones. The changes that it has wrought, then, become as important as those that have been rooted in a historical functioning of the nation.
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Re-temporalising the Cultural in India
The book looks at the different ways the temporal features in the existential exigencies of the human located within the definitive boundaries of Indianness. This has been done through an interrogation of different cultural artefacts that have been produced, across the space and time of the Indian nation, to look not only at representations of Time but how time (as the temporal) actually finds a play in them. Each act of the cultural becomes, in a sense, a relation of the very action of time. This way, the volume wishes to think, in a very pointed manner, how this play of the temporal defines the Indian Being and allow narratives, of different kinds and forms, to become. Each chapter in the volume seek to read the temporal action inside the contemporaneity of India's existence since, for better or for worse, the west has taken a hold in. The global interaction that India has had to go through, either as a British colony or a world post-colony, has allowed a meshing in of the western philosophical conceptualisations of time with (and within) the Indian ones. The changes that it has wrought, then, become as important as those that have been rooted in a historical functioning of the nation.
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Re-temporalising the Cultural in India

Re-temporalising the Cultural in India

Re-temporalising the Cultural in India

Re-temporalising the Cultural in India

Overview

The book looks at the different ways the temporal features in the existential exigencies of the human located within the definitive boundaries of Indianness. This has been done through an interrogation of different cultural artefacts that have been produced, across the space and time of the Indian nation, to look not only at representations of Time but how time (as the temporal) actually finds a play in them. Each act of the cultural becomes, in a sense, a relation of the very action of time. This way, the volume wishes to think, in a very pointed manner, how this play of the temporal defines the Indian Being and allow narratives, of different kinds and forms, to become. Each chapter in the volume seek to read the temporal action inside the contemporaneity of India's existence since, for better or for worse, the west has taken a hold in. The global interaction that India has had to go through, either as a British colony or a world post-colony, has allowed a meshing in of the western philosophical conceptualisations of time with (and within) the Indian ones. The changes that it has wrought, then, become as important as those that have been rooted in a historical functioning of the nation.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9789356404120
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 08/30/2025
Pages: 320
Product dimensions: 5.65(w) x 8.80(h) x 0.95(d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction by Ritwick Bhattacharjee and Srinjoyee Dutta
Chapter 1: Ecstatic Temporality and the Rahasya of Being in Agyeya's Shekhar: Ek Jeevani by Saikat Ghosh
Chapter 2: Haunted Time in Amitav Ghosh's Gun Island by Mousumi Ray
Chapter 3: Primetime Nation-Building: Notes on All India Radio's Hawa Mahal by Shantam Goyal
Chapter 4: Muktibodh on the Margins: Time of Modernity and Nation Form in his Works by Akansha Singh
Chapter 5: Seeping through the Clock: Locating Time in Three Contemporary Bangla Novels by Ramyani Banerjee and Aunshuparna Mustafi
Chapter 6: Inhuman Time: Mani Kaul and the Cinema of Stasis by Arnav Gogoi
Chapter 7: Non-synchronous Temporalities: Time, Nation, and Post-Independence Cartoons in India by Rohit Prasad
Chapter 8: Complicating Temporality through Graphic Art: A Study of Indian Street Art by Gulbahar Shah
Chapter 9: From Cyclical to Unreal to Cyclical Time: A Study of Time's Ontology in Baital Pachchisi by Sanyogita Singh
Chapter 10: Holi in Kumaon: Seasonal, Performative, and Emotional Temporalities in Baithaks and Folk Songs by Meghal Karki
Chapter 11: (Un)timely Translation and Folklore: A Critical Enquiry into Documenting and Translating Haryanvi Folktales by Muskan Dhandhi
Chapter 12: Time and Body in Tishani Doshi's 'Girls are Coming Out of the Woods' by Nandini Varma
Chapter 13: 'You Came Along and I Became a Mudd-dha': Mothering, Madness, and the Strange Case of Fictional Time by Saloni Sharma
Chapter 14: The Function of Time in Social Mobility: A Visual Anthropological Perspective by Ashraya Kant
List of Contributors.
About the Editors
Index

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