``Fyataru and Subaltern War Cries:

Nabarun Bhattacharya and the Rebirth of the Subject

Authors

  • Anindya Sekhar Purakayastha

Keywords:

Nabarun Bhattacharya, Author as Saboteur, Subaltern, radical violence, literary Bolshevism

Abstract

Nabarun Bhattacharya, the radical literary voice of Bengal demonstrates notions of dissidence and aesthetic Bolshevism. His fictive dissenting subjects, the fyatarus typify rebellious roles in a post-ideological era when complicity and conformity are rewarded as the norm. Nabarun`s  literary crusade interrogates the status quo and composes counter-currents of subjectivities. As a revolutionary saboteur he redefined the mode of subaltern representation by scripting the prose of counter insurgency through literature. The present excursus pays homage to this noted maverick writer of dissidence and attempts an analysis of the singularity of Nabarun`s fictional domain with specific references to some of his best known fictional works which constitute and explicate his prototypical subaltern anti-heroes such as fyatarus and Choktars who emerge as brilliant metaphorisation of dissent and disgust at our contemporary socio-political praxis. While the popular literary trends of the day have colluded with the hegemonic narrative of global capital that prevents the litterateur to coronate revolutionary anarchism or insurgency, Nabarun has consistently caused epistemic tremors through his overt advocacy of radical violence and systemic change.

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Author Biography

Anindya Sekhar Purakayastha

Anindya Sekhar Purakayastha teaches in the Department of English, Kazi Nazrul University, Asansol, India. He has contributed in journals like the International Journal of Zizek Studies, Parallax, Postcolonial Studies, Economic and Political Weekly, etc. His current area of postdoctoral research is radical political theology and the World of the Third. He is co-editor of Kairos, the Journal of Critical Symposium

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Published

2021-10-27

How to Cite

Purakayastha , A. S. . (2021). ``Fyataru and Subaltern War Cries:: Nabarun Bhattacharya and the Rebirth of the Subject. Sanglap: Journal of Literary and Cultural Inquiry, 1(2), 90–102. Retrieved from https://sanglap-journal.in/index.php/sanglap/article/view/35