The Poetry of Jayanta Mahapatra: Imagery and Vision

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The book is the most uptodate study of Jayanta Mahapatra’s poetry and is a must for the students, teachers and researchers. The poetic monument of Jayanta Mahapatra is built of landscape, ruins in the cultural geography of the land of his birth, shattered relationships, women in their woes, religious mysticism, whore-house, holyshrines, maritime history, vanquished dynasties, cruelties of kings, the Dance of Shiva, and concepts of silence, solitude, darkness, death, time, wings, language, ambiguity, surreal imagination and so on. Imagery is the expressive medium of his vision. By his art he has consciously involved himself in decolonising English by acclimatizing it to the tradition and culture of India and has thus evolved the poetics of India-EnglishHis art epitomizes binary cultures. i.e., scientific and artistic, Christian and Hindu, western and India, and colonial and post-colonial. His self-sculpture, poetry is his mystery and mantra, phosphorescence and fragrance. Though his is a poetry of non-comment, poetry that centres round silence, and grapples with the age-old sorrows of the society, that really presents a gravid sociology of the human soul. Jayanta Mahapatra (1928-), the physicist turned poet, is a major contemporary voice in Indian English literature as well as the world literature. His poetry has been a vital influence on several contemporary Indian poets. Imagery being the focal crux of his design, he has been a visionary of the essence and sublimity of the culture, life and time.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Nigamananda Das

Dr. Nigamananda Das (b. 1969) is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at Lakhimpur girls' College, North Lakhimpur, Assam. He obtained his M.A. in English Literature from Utkal University, Bhubaneswar, P.G.D.T.E. from Central Institrute of English and Foreign languages, Hyderabad and Ph.D. from Utkal University. Now he has been associated with several research institutions like Indo-American Centre for International Studies, Hyderabad, Forum on Contemporary Theory, Baroda, and NEIFES. He has authored Life's Crossroads (a Colection of poetry in Englsh) and Essays on Poetry in English from North East. He has also co-edited Batayan (a colelction of Indian short stories in English and Assamese translations), Triveni (a colelction of poetry in English, Assamese and Hindi) and JFES (Journal of Forum for English Studies, Vol,-1, Lakhimpur Girls' College). His books (co-edited and co0authored with Prof. ND.R. Chandra) the Golden Vocies: Poetry in English from North East are in teh pipeline. Besides these he has published over two dozens of research papers in various journals and completed two UGC sponsored research projects. His interests include Ecocriticism, ELT, Tribal literature, and Multi-ethnic literature of India.

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Title
The Poetry of Jayanta Mahapatra: Imagery and Vision
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Edition
1s ed.
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ISBN
818916175X
Length
xi+250p., Index; 22cm.
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