
Author: Sitakant Mahapatra
Publisher: UBS Publishers
Year: 2001
Language: English
Pages: 150
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8174763643
Description
The essays in this collection cover a wide range of subjects in the field of literature, art and culture. They seek to explore the interface between technology and communication, culture and development, tradition and modernization.
The essays, presented in various national and international seminars, are marked by rared lucidity, sharp logic and a holistic perception of ground realities that shape personal psyche and social reality. They emphasize the paramount need for the webs of intimacies that characterized earlier societies and cultures and the factors that have slowly eroded the sense of belonging and togetherness. At a time of rapid socioeconomic change when everything tends to be looked upon as commodities in the market they look at the roots of human happiness and the way art and culture can contribute to the human quest for it.
Contents
Preface
CHAPTER ONE
The Writer in Exile : Choice or Compulsion
CHAPTER TWO
Parampara and Poetry : Ambiguity of the Charmed word
CHAPTER THREE
Reality and The Word : Some Aspects of the creative process
CHAPTER FOUR
It is Time to say our few words
CHAPTER FIVE
Critiquing Modernism : Modern Indian Literature
CHAPTER SIX
Phakirmohan and the Art of Autobiography
CHAPTER SEVEN
Tribal and Regional literatures of India : The problems of Translation
CHAPTER EIGHT
A Spot Outside Time
CHAPTER NINE
The business of Living and The Quality of Life
CHAPTER TEN
The Dream of the Future and The Memory of the Past
CHAPTER ELEVEN
The Tribal World : Fading Outlines of a Way of Life
CHAPTER TWELVE
Cultural Heritage and the Marketing of Tourism
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
Communication Technologies and Traditional Societies
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
Value in Art : Extending Borders through Passion and Love
CHAPTER FIFTEEN
Culture at the Core : Development Imperatives in The New Millennium
CHAPTER SIXTEEN
Beyond Narcissism : The Journey From the Self to The Other
Index