Kolkata in Space, Time, And Imagination Vol. II
EDITOR- Anuradha Roy and Melitta Waligora
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- EDITORS : Anuradha Roy and Melitta Waligora
- HB ISBN : 978-93-89850-85-7
- Year : 2020
- Extent : 440 pp.
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The second volume of Kolkata in Space, Time and Imagination continues with the theme of the ordinary and the everyday, with special attention paid to the underclasses of the city, focusing on certain labouring sectors (including feminized ones) that have always been marginalized in the city’s history and yet do assert their ‘right to the city’ even in this age of neoliberal economics that seems to be rapidly turning the city into a utopia for the middle-class.
This volume, moreover, deals with the efflorescence of creative imagination in the city’s culturescape, focusing on certain literary and artistic genres. It also shows how, in a sense, the city itself is an imagined existence, albeit a pluralistic one, and how perceptions of the city’s past and the conservation of its heritage are also largely determined by imagination. Just as the first volume highlights the politics of space and time, the present one makes a nuanced study of the politics of culture in the city.
Anuradha Roy is Professor, Department of History, Jadavpur University. Her research is focused on intellectual and cultural history, with special reference to the life of the Bengali bhadralok and bhadramahila (men and women of the educated upper and middle classes). She has authored/edited a dozen books in Bengali and English, most of which are related to the nationalist and communist culture in Bengal. Among the books authored by her are Nationalism as Poetic Discourse in Nineteenth Century Bengal (2003); Cultural Communism in Bengal, 1936-1952 (2014); Bengal Marxism: Early Discourses and Debates (2014), a monograph on the women novelists of nineteenth-century Bengal and a collection of essays titled Itihaser Harek Gero (Different Knots of History, 2019).
Melitta Waligora is Assistant Professor at the Seminar for South Asian Studies, Institute for Asian and African Studies, Humboldt University, Berlin. She teaches topics related to South Asia, focusing mainly on Bengal: Bengal Renaissance, its intellectual and cultural history, social structures, gender relations and urban history. She has recently published a book about the city of Kolkata titled Kalkutta: Eine Moderne Stadt am Ganges (2015), and a collection of portraits of women living in Kolkata, based on interviews with them, titled Ich wollte nie so leben wie meine Mutter (2017). She has also edited a book about gender relations titled Draupadi und Kriemhild: Frauen, Ehre und Macht im Nibelungenlied und Mahabharata (2008).