Cold Fire
Abstract
I’ll come and give you a brochure and other literatures too. But if you watch this videocassette for ten minutes, things will become absolutely clear to you. I really like this model of the Akai VCR you have here.
I’ll come and give you a brochure and other literatures too. But if you watch this videocassette for ten minutes, things will become absolutely clear to you. I really like this model of the Akai VCR you have here.
Arka Chattopadhyay is an M.A, MPhil in English Literature, Jadavpur University, India. Having finished his MPHIL on Samuel Beckett and Alain Badiou, he is now pursuing his PHD at Writing and Society at University of Western Sydney on Samuel Beckett and Lacanian Psychoanalysis under the supervision of Prof. Anthony Uhlmann and Dr. Alex Ling. He has presented at conferences like 2010 and 2011 NEMLA Conventions, 2012 International Samuel Beckett Working Group and the 2014 Oxford Samuel Beckett: Debts and Legacies Symposium. His articles have been published in books, anthologies and journals like Miranda and Samuel Beckett Today / Aujourd'hui. He has edited the book Samuel Beckett and the Encounter of Philosophy and Literature with James Martell, published by Roman Books, London in 2013. Along with Sourit Bhattacharya, he is the editor of the peer-reviewed online academic journal Sanglap. He has a chapter titled ‘“I switch off”: Towards a Beckettian Minority of Theatrical Event’, forthcoming in Palgrave MacMillan’s 2015 book Deleuze and Beckett edited by Stephen Wilmer et al.
CFP for Sanglap 11.2
We draw from this use of the term and want to explore how water has been commodified or enclosed for profit as a resource, generating complex power dynamics. Issues of access in terms of caste, race, or gender related discrimination have also mobilised conversations around pitching water at the centre of discussions for community and economy. In many cases, these thinkers have gone to literature to support their arguments, as literary scholars have argued for water’s significance for community building and historical documentation. Water’s agentic power has also made recent incursions into critical studies where questions of fluidity and power have led to the emergence of the subfield, ‘blue humanities’.
It is this framework of understanding water as a source of energy, resource, commodity, as well as philosophy, politics, and culture that we wish to explore in this issue through studies of how water is represented in literature and culture. Recent and burgeoning work on hydropolitics, riparian fiction, liquid modernity allows to think where we stand with the question of water in literature as we enter the second quarter of the 21st century.