The Chronicler of “Ordinary Grief”:

Arun Kolatkar and the Songs of Insignificance

Authors

  • Anuparna Mukherjee IISER Bhopal

Abstract

Laetitia Zecchini’s Arun Kolatkar and Literary Modernism in India (2014) is a decisive work on the precepts of modernism in India as it panned out around the aesthetic praxis of Kolatkar and his contemporaries against the cosmopolitan cultural background of Bombay (the present-day Mumbai) in the post-independence era. Primarily known as a poet in the pan-Indian literary scene, this book introduces Kolatkar as a man of many talents.

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Author Biography

Anuparna Mukherjee, IISER Bhopal

 

Anuparna Mukherjee is currently serving as an assistant professor of Humanities and Social Sciences, IISER Bhopal. She previously taught in the Department of English at St. Xavier’s University. Anuparna holds a PhD degree in literature from the Australian National University. She completed her graduation from Presidency College, Kolkata. Anuparna has guest-edited a special issue on “City, Space and Literature” with Arunima Bhattacharya. Her article, “After the Empire: Narratives of Haunting in the Postcolonial Spectropolis” was published in South Asian Review. Her recent piece on “viral nostalgia” was published in EPW and her essay on "waste and spectrality" is included in the anthology on Nabarun Bhattacharya by Bloomsbury.

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Published

2021-11-01

How to Cite

Mukherjee, A. . (2021). The Chronicler of “Ordinary Grief”:: Arun Kolatkar and the Songs of Insignificance. Sanglap: Journal of Literary and Cultural Inquiry, 3(1), 115–120. Retrieved from http://sanglap-journal.in/index.php/sanglap/article/view/69

Issue

Vol. 3 No. 1 (2016): Critiquing Humanism

Section

Reviews