SHARIRER SANSKRITI SANSKRITIR SHARIR (Bengali Version)
Book Details
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Author: Chirantan Sarkar
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Publisher: Ababhash
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Language: Bengali
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ISBN: 9789380732510
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Pages: 256
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First Edition: December 2019
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Format: Paperback
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Size: 21.5 x 14 cm
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Price: ₹
About the Book
Rather than presenting a single, coherent ideological framework, this book draws upon diverse and often conflicting strands of feminist, postcolonial, and postmodern thought to explore the politics of embodiment and its cultural implications.
Through a series of sharp, reflective prose fragments, the author examines how the body becomes a site of discourse and power. Themes such as voyeuristic gaze, fetishism, nudity, objectification, ageing, body–mind dualism, otherness, intimacy, and altered states of consciousness are thoughtfully discussed.
The book also investigates how the body functions as a contested space—whether in ascetic traditions, esoteric practices, rituals of death and reproduction, or contemporary mindfulness and self-care cultures. It further probes the relationship between bodily performance, structures of power, and the making of the self.
Spanning 256 pages, this paperback offers a provocative and intellectually rich engagement with questions of body, culture, and identity in the modern world.
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SHARIRER SANSKRITI SANSKRITIR SHARIR (Bengali Version)
SHARIRER SANSKRITI SANSKRITIR SHARIR (Bengali Version)
Book Details
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Author: Chirantan Sarkar
-
Publisher: Ababhash
-
Language: Bengali
-
ISBN: 9789380732510
-
Pages: 256
-
First Edition: December 2019
-
Format: Paperback
-
Size: 21.5 x 14 cm
-
Price: ₹
About the Book
Rather than presenting a single, coherent ideological framework, this book draws upon diverse and often conflicting strands of feminist, postcolonial, and postmodern thought to explore the politics of embodiment and its cultural implications.
Through a series of sharp, reflective prose fragments, the author examines how the body becomes a site of discourse and power. Themes such as voyeuristic gaze, fetishism, nudity, objectification, ageing, body–mind dualism, otherness, intimacy, and altered states of consciousness are thoughtfully discussed.
The book also investigates how the body functions as a contested space—whether in ascetic traditions, esoteric practices, rituals of death and reproduction, or contemporary mindfulness and self-care cultures. It further probes the relationship between bodily performance, structures of power, and the making of the self.
Spanning 256 pages, this paperback offers a provocative and intellectually rich engagement with questions of body, culture, and identity in the modern world.
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Book Details
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Author: Chirantan Sarkar
-
Publisher: Ababhash
-
Language: Bengali
-
ISBN: 9789380732510
-
Pages: 256
-
First Edition: December 2019
-
Format: Paperback
-
Size: 21.5 x 14 cm
-
Price: ₹
About the Book
Rather than presenting a single, coherent ideological framework, this book draws upon diverse and often conflicting strands of feminist, postcolonial, and postmodern thought to explore the politics of embodiment and its cultural implications.
Through a series of sharp, reflective prose fragments, the author examines how the body becomes a site of discourse and power. Themes such as voyeuristic gaze, fetishism, nudity, objectification, ageing, body–mind dualism, otherness, intimacy, and altered states of consciousness are thoughtfully discussed.
The book also investigates how the body functions as a contested space—whether in ascetic traditions, esoteric practices, rituals of death and reproduction, or contemporary mindfulness and self-care cultures. It further probes the relationship between bodily performance, structures of power, and the making of the self.
Spanning 256 pages, this paperback offers a provocative and intellectually rich engagement with questions of body, culture, and identity in the modern world.
