{"product_id":"9798765138816","title":"Critic as Artist An Autoethnography of World Literature","description":"\u003ch1\u003eCritic as Artist\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch2\u003eAn Autoethnography of World Literature\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch3\u003eSaikat Majumdar\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003eLiterary Criticism \/ Comparative Literature\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn examination of the aesthetic identity of criticism as a literary genre in global English writing.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFocusing on English writers within minoritized and postcolonial traditions, \u003ci\u003eThe Critic as Artist\u003c\/i\u003e explores the hybrid form of “creative criticism” as a convergence of the intellectual and the imaginative to produce a new understanding of the relationship between reading, writing, teaching, and activism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSaikat Majumdar reads key thinkers and their imaginative criticism as autoethnographic practice: A.K. Ramanujan and Trinh T Minh-ha on myth, folklore, and literature; Alice Walker and Njabulo Ndebele on community and nationality; and Zadie Smith, Amit Chaudhuri, and Hoshang Merchant on one's love-hate relationship with tradition. Examining themes that can be neither exclusively theorized, nor exclusively embodied, he demonstrates how, when one gets mired in the subjective nature of one's claim, the intellectual voice remains retrievable only through the artistic.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Critic as Artist\u003c\/i\u003e celebrates the uniquely embodied nature of criticism as a literary practice that originates from the entanglements of self and archive, subject and history, individual and community.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eSaikat Majumdar \u003c\/b\u003eis Professor of English \u0026amp; Creative Writing at Ashoka University, India. He is author of \u003ci\u003eProse of the World\u003c\/i\u003e (2013) and \u003ci\u003eThe Amateur\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e: Self-Making and the Humanities in the Postcolony\u003c\/i\u003e (Bloomsbury, 2024) and co-editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Critic as Amateur\u003c\/i\u003e (Bloomsbury, 2019). He has also published five novels, including \u003ci\u003eThe Firebird\/Play House\u003c\/i\u003e (2015\/2017) and \u003ci\u003eThe Remains of the Body\u003c\/i\u003e (2024).\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e01 April 2027\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9798765138816\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePaperback softback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e208\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWeight (oz): \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e16.0\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51669665448076,"sku":"9798765138816","price":22.46,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9798765138816","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}