On the 60th death-anniversary of the foremost Bengali poet Jibanananda Das, I thought Id re-post the link to my lecture on Jibanananda--a lecture some of you wanted to watch again (thanks for your interest), a lecture in which I explore the relatively uncharted terrains of his poetic preoccupations to which, I argue, the question of political economy and even Marxs circuits of M-C-M and M-M remain central and integral, while also arguing the need for engaging this different and otherwise ignored Das: youtube/watch?v=2bgmv1n7I2E
Posted on: Thu, 23 Oct 2014 03:46:00 +0000