Rabindranath Tagore in the 21st Century

Debashish Banerji is Professor of Indian Studies and Dean of Academic Affairs at the University of Philosophical Research, Los Angeles. He is also Adjunct Faculty in Asian Art History at the Pasadena City College and Research Fellow in Asian and Comparative Studies at the California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco. Banerji is the author of The Alternate Nation of Abanindranath Tagore (Sage, 2010) and Seven Quartets of Becoming: A Transformative Yoga Psychology Based on the Diaries of Sri Aurobindo (DKPW and Nalanda, 2012). As an independent art curator, he has curated a number of exhibitions of Indian and Japanese art in the U.S. and India. His articles on South Asian art history, culture studies and consciousness studies have appeared in various magazines, journals and anthologies. To know more about him, visit http://www.debashishbanerji.com.

Chapter 1. Introduction: Theory and the Performative Politics of Punctuation.- Chapter 2. The Rustle of Language.- Chapter 3. Translating Tagore: Shifting Paradigms.- Chapter 4. Two Giant Brothers.- Chapter 5. Tagore’s Idea of “World Literature”.- Chapter 6. Rethinking Cosmopolitan Modernity: Rabindranath Tagore on Nationalism and Internationalism.- Chapter 7. The Bauhaus, Rabindranath Tagore and his Paintings.- Chapter 8. Why Ratan fell in Love Unnoticed and Why Ashu was Ashamed: Tagore’s Short Fiction and the Ethics of Feeling.- Chapter 9. Remembering Robi: Childhood, Freedom and Rabindranath Tagore.- Chapter 10. The Educational Efforts of Rabindranath Tagore.- Chapter 11. The Delineation of the Female Subject in Rabindranath Tagore’s Novel Farewell, My Friend.- Chapter 12. Gender, Nation, and the Vicissitudes of Kalpana: Choreographing Womanly Beauty in Tagore’s Dance Dramas.- Chapter 13. Chitrangada and Contemporary Queer Appropriations of Tagore.- Chapter 14. Tagore and the North-East: Dialectics of Human Intellection and the Nature of Aesthetic Reflection.- Chapter 15. Rabindrasangeet and Modern Bengali Subjectivity.- Chapter 16. Tagore and National Identity Formation in Bangladesh.- Chapter 17. Tagore Through Portraits: An Intersubjective Picture Gallery.- Chapter 18. The Unanswered Question:  Some Remarks on Tagore’s Late Style.