periods: on the one hand, it helped instil among the middle-class urban educated Bengali a provinciality that gave to his subjugated status as a colonial subject a certain degree of pride and exclusivity, bordering on resistance and subversion on the other, embedded in the formation of this adda identity was another narrative of the Bengali as a cosmopolitan citizen of the world, one which generated a transnational, collective and participatory discourse where Baudelaire and Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, communism and communalism, football and Argentina, cha and Chairman Mao, jatra and opera could mingle in a sort of carnivalesque celebratory mode. I will attempt to demonstrate that the adda as a verbal performative act created two seemingly oppositional narratives for the Bengali bhadralok of these two. My paper inquires into the role that adda, an informal but intimate social conversation, played in the formation of the urban Bengali middle class male (bhadralok) identity from the 19 th century colonial to 20 th century modern Bengal. The book is written in a lucid style and promises to be an interesting read for those in the academia as well as for general readers. The essays enrol the ideas of a number of key thinkers – Foucault, Derrida, Butler, Haraway, Zizek, Appadurai and Dipesh Chakrabarty. These have been examined through the lens of critical theory. The analysis focuses on some of the most searching cultural questions that have been hotly contested on the grounds of race, gender, class, caste, and national identity. comics, and the postcolonial myths, market, and the national imaginary and other topical subjects.
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It deals with a range of ideas, acts, and practices that define who we are, what we think, and how we live our lives. This book is a critical application of theory to recent literary, social, and cultural phenomena.
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