We live in a world of controversies, and often wonder what controversies do to a culture. Do they interpret it? Can one conceive of them as a genre? Can they offer serious diagnostic tools to the social scientist or the cultural historian? In this pioneering study, the author addresses these and similar questions, and examines if and how controversies help us understand the ways in which forms of nationalism and identity formation imagine, shape, and construct themselves.
About the Author
Sumanyu Satpathy, currently a Fellow at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, is a former Professor of English, University of Delhi. His areas of interest are literary modernism, Indian literary culture, Odisha studies, queer studies and literary nonsense. He was Distinguished Scholar at the Institute for Advance Studies, La Trobe University (Australia) in 2007. His publications include Re-viewing Reviewing: The Reception of Modernist Poetry in the Times Literary Supplement (1912-1932), Southern Postcolonialisms, Reading Literary Culture and The Tenth Rasa: An Anthology of Indian Nonsense. He has published numerous research articles in international journals.
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