Transgression in the Bengali avant-garde: the poetry of the hungry generation
Transgression in the Bengali Avant-Garde wants to introduce the Hungry Generation movement to a global audience through its poetry, manifestoes and other literary materials. Emerged from the cities of Patna and Calcutta in the early 1960s, the Hungry Generation gained international attention after t...
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| Format: | Book/Monograph Thesis |
| Language: | English |
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Heidelberg
Heidelberg Asian Studies Publishing (HASP)
2024
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| DOI: | 10.11588/hasp.1320 |
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| Online Access: | Verlag, kostenfrei, Volltext: https://doi.org/10.11588/hasp.1320 Verlag, kostenfrei, Volltext: https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-hasp-1320-0 Verlag, kostenfrei, Volltext: https://hasp.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/catalog/book/1320 Langzeitarchivierung Nationalbibliothek, kostenfrei: https://d-nb.info/1334786909/34 
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| Author Notes: | Daniela Cappello |
| Summary: | Transgression in the Bengali Avant-Garde wants to introduce the Hungry Generation movement to a global audience through its poetry, manifestoes and other literary materials. Emerged from the cities of Patna and Calcutta in the early 1960s, the Hungry Generation gained international attention after the poets' arrest on charges of obscenity in 1964. Fiercely provoking the literary establishment, these Bengali bohemians used poetry and literature as means of cultural radicalism, tackling subjects like sexuality, perversion, alcohol and drug consumption, masturbation, and hyper-masculinity to challenge bourgeois morality and respectability. The book sheds light on a variety of Hungryalist sources and explores the literature of the Hungry Generation through the filter of 'transgression', showing how this concept unfolded in the language, aesthetics and culture behind this Bengali avant-garde movement. Furthermore, the book will delve into the poetry of some iconic representatives of the Hungry Generation, critically reading their oeuvre in the context of changing models of sexuality, consumption, and modernization in post-colonial India. |
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| Item Description: | Gesehen am 13.08.2024 Revised version of the thesis "Transgression, Sexuality and Masculinity: The Poetry of the Hungry Generation", which was defended as a dissertation at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Heidelberg on 19.02.2021 |
| Physical Description: | Online Resource |
| ISBN: | 9783948791896 |
| DOI: | 10.11588/hasp.1320 |
| Access: | Open Access |