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About the Book This volume includes two long essays—the first explores the poetry of Negritude by analysing the work of several Black poets of the time; thesecond, a meditation on the poetry of renowned French author FrancisPonge (1899–1988), ...

Baruch Spinoza (1632–77) is considered one of the great rationalist thinkers of the seventeenth century. His magnum opus, Ethics, in which he criticized the dualism of Descartes, solidified his reputation and greatly influenced the Enlightenment t...

About the Book Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak has distinguished herself as one of the foremost scholars of contemporary literary and postcolonial theory and feminist thought. Known for her translation of Derrida's On Grammatology and her groundbreakin...

About the Book Sartre was a prodigious commentator on contemporary art, as is evidentfrom the short but incisive essays that make up this important volume.Sartre examines the work of a wide range of artists here, includingrecognized masters such a...

A major collection of essays and interviews from an iconic 20th-century philosopher in five volumes, now all available together in paperback. Roland Barthes was a restless, protean thinker. A constant innovator--often as a daring smuggler of idea...

About the Book Sartre met Albert Camus in Occupied France in 1943—an odd pair: onefrom the upper reaches of French society; the other, a pied-noir borninto poverty in Algeria. The love of ‘freedom’ brought them togetherquickly as closest of ...

A major collection of essays and interviews from an iconic 20th-century philosopher in five volumes, now all available together in paperback. Roland Barthes was a restless, protean thinker. A constant innovator—often as a daring smuggler of idea...

About the Book In one of his last interviews, Edward Said speaks with Tariq Ali about his dislocated existence, his initiation into politics, his involvement with the Palestinian cause, his approach to the study of culture, and his pervasive love ...

A major collection of essays and interviews from an iconic 20th-century philosopher in five volumes, now all available together in paperback. Roland Barthes was a restless, protean thinker. A constant innovator―often as a daring smuggler of idea...

Vsevolod Pudovkin (1893-1953) was one of the leading Soviet film directors in the 'golden age' of silent cinema in the 1920s. His films - especially The Mother, The End of St Petersburg and Storm over Asia - are classics of silent cinema. Like Eis...

Interview with the communist and political leader of West Bengal, India, chiefly on the 1930-1940, political situation in the state.

About the Book On Revolution includes a long essay in two parts in which Sartre dwellsupon the ‘myth’ of revolution and goes on to analyse revolutionary ideasin fascism and, especially, Marxism. In the second essay, he examinesthe figure of th...

About the Book We find ourselves face to face with Sartre the literary critic in thiscollection of brief but insightful essays that carefully examine the worksof renowned French writers such as François Mauriac, Nathalie Sarraute,Jean Giraudoux, ...

About the Book Last season, Seagull Books published the first three volumes in a new series collecting essays and interviews by the late French thinker Roland Barthes. This season they’ll bring the five-volume set to completion with the publicat...

About the Book Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay was one of the greatest writers in modern Bengali literature, best known for his autobiographical novel Pather Panchali, which, along with another of Bandyopadhyay’s books, formed the basis for Satyaji...

Dangerous outcast traces prostitution in Bengal from precolonial times through the arrival of the British, examining how the profession was reordered to suit British desires. Drawing on nineteenth-century popular and folk culture, Sumanta Banerjee...

Pablo Picasso and Gertrude Stein. Few can be said to have had as broad an impact on European art in the twentieth century as these two cultural giants. Pablo Picasso, a pioneering visual artist, created a prolific and widely influential body of wo...

About the Book Who killed Mrs Gandhi? We know the name of the assassins, but did they act alone? In this fictional film script, Tariq Ali suggests that larger forces were at work, exploiting genuine Sikh grievances to settle their own score with a...

Rudali from Fiction to Performance

About the Book ‘There is a crisis of the essay,’ begins Sartre as he ventures into a longanalysis of how the work of one of his contemporaries who might savethis form—Geroges Bataille. He reviews Aminadab, the important workof another hugely...

About the Book Living Translation offers a powerful perspective on the work of distinguished thinker and writer Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, revealing how, throughout her long career, she has made translation a central concern of the comparative hu...

About the Book Guilty Males and Proud Females is the first complete study on the Bengali gajan festival dedicated to Dharmaraj, a village god in the Rarh region of Bengal. The gajan is the dramatic representation of an hierogamy--the marriage of a...

About the Book Jerzy Grotowski (1933-99) was a Polish stage director, theatrical theorist, and founder and director of the small but influential Polish Laboratory Theatre. Most of Grotowski's theater-making took place in this and similar small the...

About the Book The relationship between cinema and modernity in the Indian context is both complex and multifaceted. In this volume, some of the leading names in film and cultural studies explore its many dimensions. The essays range from discussi...

A flamboyantly eclectic anthology that explodes the myths about the lines which divide us - the heterosexual from the homosexual, the normative from the 'alternative', the phobic from the obsessive, the moral from the titillating, the academic fro...

In the winter of 1946, somenath hore, one of India's major painter-sculptors, was assigned by the Communist party to document the tebhaga movement in North Bengal. A young art student at the time, hore witnessed the massive mobilization taking pla...

A major collection of essays and interviews from an iconic 20th-century philosopher in five volumes, now all available together in paperback. Roland Barthes was a restless, protean thinker. A constant innovator--often as a daring smuggler of idea...

A bravura exploration of politics and writing in dark times. In "The Last Resistance," Jacqueline Rose explores the power of writing to create and transform our political lives. In particular Rose examines the role of literature in the Zionist ima...

About the Book Taking its title from Karl Marx’s description of religion as the world’s “logic in a popular form,” This book explores the hidden logic behind popular religions in nineteenth-century Bengal. Sumanta Banerjee examines cross-r...

About the Book May 1992. In Russia, Boris Yeltsin is showing millions of Communists the spectre of capitalism.Yugoslavia is disintegrating. United Germany is confused about whom to include in its Olympic team—east? Or West? Poland, Czechoslovaki...

For nearly half a century, German artist Max Neumann has worked to create, hone and elaborate a visual vocabulary that is dark, compulsive and forceful. A lifelong collaborator, Neumann’s paintings have accompanied the work of Cees Nooteboom, Seam...

Now in paperback, René Char's Hypnos is both a remarkable work of literature and a document of unique significance in the history of the French Resistance. Hailed by the poet Paul Eluard as an "absolute masterpiece" upon its first appearance in ...

Utpal Dutt (1929–93), playwright, director and actor, an inspiration and role model for the activist theatre person. Whether through the proscenium theatre, street performance, the traditional strolling theatre-in-the-round, or cinema, Dutt tried ...

Outcast Four Stories

This first book in a three-volume collection of Georges Bataille’s essays introduces English readers to his philosophical and critical writings. In the aftermath of the Second World War, French thinker and writer Georges Bataille forged a singula...

A major collection of essays and interviews from an iconic 20th-century philosopher in five volumes, now all available together in paperback. Roland Barthes was a restless, protean thinker. A constant innovator--often as a daring smuggler of idea...

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In 1975, when political scientist Benedict Anderson reached Wat Phai Rong Wua, a massive temple complex in rural Thailand conceived by Buddhist monk Luang Phor Khom, he felt he had wandered into a demented Disneyland. One of the world's most bizar...

Rainer Brambach, one of the most widely appreciated Swiss poets in the 1950s and '60s, was notorious for walking to the beat of his own drum, denying convention and standing his ground against popular styles and trends. He grew up in Basel and lef...

About the Book The seven plays that comprise Chiori Miyagawa's Thousand Years Waiting and Other Plays explore themes of memory and identity.Her plays combine poetic language with harsh reality, and time and space are fluid in the worlds she create...

About the Book Yasmine Beverly Rana's The War Zone is My Bed and Other Plays follows journeys of spiritual destruction and redemption from the banks of the Mississippi River and the fallen levees of New Orleans to the conflict-ravaged streets of S...

Lyrical and powerful poems that serve as a powerful reminder of the human cost of war. “Those who believe in the currency of patience / Were burned out in the alleyway.” The Screams of War is a visceral collection of poems that confront the real...

Translated from Hindi by Anjum Katyal. Based on a historical incident, focusses on nature of the tribal world and issues about assimilation.

About the Book The BBC commissioned Tariq Ali to write a three-part TV series on the circumstances leading to the overthrow, trial and execution of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, the first elected Prime Minister of Pakistan. As rehearsals were about to begi...

About the Book November 9, 2009 will mark 20 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall, the monumental event that signaled the beginning of the end of Communism in the former Soviet Union. Yet, why was this collapse of Communism considered final, bu...

Books, and the printed word more generally, are aspects of modern life that are all too often taken for granted. Yet the emergence of the book was a process of immense historical importance and heralded the dawning of the epoch of modernity. In th...

About the Book This anthology of six contemporary plays from Turkey captures such global themes as questions of identity, poverty, class conflict, oppression, and displacement while shedding light on current cultural and political matters in Turke...

About the Book Based on fieldwork carried out in West Bengal, Sailing on the Sea of Love is a pioneering study of the songs of the Baul --a Bengali religious sect, widely beloved for its enchanting music. Charles Capwell describes the role Baul so...

About the Book Praised by Paul Auster as "one of the rare poets in the history of literature to have sustained the highest level of artistic excellence throughout an entire lifetime," Yves Bonnefoy is widely considered the foremost French poet of ...

About the Book Celebrated Indian playwright Mahesh Elkunchwar has experimented with many forms of dramatic expression in a career that now spans more than four decades, producing works that range from the realist to the symbolic, expressionist to ...

About the Book Political Fictions includes Sartre’s long foreword to André Gorz’s The Traitor, which has often been called the most intimate and profound book to emerge from the existentialist movement. Sartre also presents a detailed portra...

About the Book The international community of letters mourns the recent death of Yves Bonnefoy, universally acclaimed as one of France's greatest poets of the last half-century. A prolific author, he was often considered a candidate for the Nobel ...

The Anthropological Survey of India launched the People of India project on 2 October 1985 to generate an anthropological profile of all communities of the country. It also recorded the impact of developmental programmes on these communities and t...

About the Book Thousands upon thousands of books have been written about Immanuel Kant since his death. None, let’s be clear, have been quite like what we have here. In Party Fun with Kant, Nicolas Mahler tells the story of Kant and his fellow s...

Delves into Theodor W. Adorno’s lesser-known musical career and successful music criticism. Theodor W. Adorno is recognized as one of the twentieth century’s most prominent social theorists. Though best known for his association with the Frankfur...