Contextualising Tukadoji’s Gramgeeta: Trajectories of Tradition and Reality (Hardcover-2024)

About the Book:

The critique Contextualising Gramgeeta and mapping out the trajectories of tradition and reality explores the post-colonial discourse in historical and cultural contexts with new comparative assertions. The comparative cultural analysis and interpretation purport to investigate the nature of the problems such as how post-colonial discourse deconstructs the text/s, how cultural hegemony operates and how Gramgeeta counter-discourses. The corollary questions are whether the post-colonial discourse in the text offers paradigms to fill the void and fissures in multi-variant realities, which post-modernism celebrates, and if we listen to the subaltern voices in historical-cultural frameworks.

Abou the Author:

Ratnakar D. Bhelkar, poet, short story writer, prose lyricist, critic, editor and translator, is a bilingual who writes in Marathi and English and translates from both languages. Born on October 21, 1960, in Kalmeshwar of Nagpur District in Maharashtra, he was awarded Madhaorao Chandorkar Gold Medal for M.A. (English) in 1985. He is a former Professor and Head of the Department of English, Dhanwate National College, Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur University, Nagpur and Visiting Faculty, Department of Rashtrasant Tukadoji Thought of the same University. He was awarded Ph.D. for his research on Fantasy and Reality in Science Fiction in 1998, and is also the recipient of D.Litt. in English in 2020, in Translation Studies, for submitting the treatise on Gramgeeta.