{"id":6934,"date":"2017-01-31T10:21:09","date_gmt":"2017-01-31T10:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/?p=6934"},"modified":"2017-01-31T10:29:47","modified_gmt":"2017-01-31T10:29:47","slug":"congratulations-to-thirthankar-chakraborty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2017\/01\/31\/congratulations-to-thirthankar-chakraborty\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations to Thirthankar Chakraborty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/complit\/index.html\">Department of Comparative Literature<\/a> is delighted to announce that Thirthankar Chakraborty has been awarded a PhD under the supervision of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/complit\/staff\/weller.html\">Professor Shane Weller<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/modern-languages\/staff\/baldwin.html\">Dr Thomas Baldwin<\/a> with a thesis entitled \u2018Samuel Beckett and Indian Literature.\u2019<\/p>\n<p><em>Godot\u00a0ke\u00a0Intezar Mein<\/em> (Hindi), <em>Godor Pratikshay<\/em> (Bengali), <em>Eppo Varuvaru<\/em> (Tamil), <em>Kalpo Ke\u00a0Kalpana Mari\u00a0Parvari\u00a0Chhe<\/em> (Gujarati), <em>Edin Ahibo\u00a0Teu<\/em> (Assamese), <em>Su Yee<\/em> (Kashmiri): these are just some of the translations and adaptations of Samuel Beckett\u2019s Waiting for\u00a0Godot into Indian languages. They reveal how Beckett\u2019s chef d\u2019oeuvre has reached every corner of the country, and has gained from the remarkable dissemination through a multilingual, multicultural, social, and political space of post-independence India.<\/p>\n<p>Divided into three parts, Thirthankar\u2019s thesis is a comparative study of the relation between Samuel Beckett\u2019s works and Indian prose fiction, drama, and cinema, from the moment when Beckett\u2019s oeuvre was first introduced in India. Engaging with recent debates on the concept of world literature, it assesses three phases that are pertinent to each of these parts: 1) the topical-planetary phase: Beckett\u2019s influence on Anglo Indian novelists, from Salman Rushdie to Upamanyu Chatterjee; 2) the world-making phase: the circulation of Beckettian themes, techniques and style amongst Indian playwrights, such as Girish Karnad and Badal Sircar; and 3) the canonical phase: Beckett\u2019s pervasive presence rather than direct influence in Indian cinema, from Bollywood to Ashish Avikunthak and the Cinema of Prayoga. Put together, these three parts form a three-phase evolution, and a conceptual framework for the field of world literature. Starting with Rushdie, the thesis charters new territories in the light of Beckett\u2019s works, while the comparative approach draws attention to the heterogeneous and complex nature of modern Indian literature and cinema.<\/p>\n<p>During his PhD, which was funded by a University of Kent 50th Anniversary Scholarship, Thirthankar has presented papers at various conferences, such as at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iftr.org\/\">International Federation for Theatre Research<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/bams.ac.uk\/\">British Association for Modernist Studies<\/a>. Sponsored by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/researchcentres\/eurolit\/\">Centre for Modern European Literature<\/a>, he co-organised the <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/beckettworldlit\/\">Samuel Beckett and World Literature<\/a> conference in 2016. He also won the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bclt.org.uk\/\">British Centre for Literary Translation<\/a> bursary for participating at the <a href=\"http:\/\/iwl.fas.harvard.edu\/\">Institute of World Literature<\/a> in 2015 and was recipient of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beckettsummerschool.com\/\">Samuel Beckett Summer School<\/a>\u2019s international bursary in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Our congratulations to Dr Chakraborty.<\/p>\n<p>For more details of the PhD in Comparative Literature, please\u00a0see:\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/complit\/postgraduate\/research-comparative-literature.html\">https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/complit\/postgraduate\/research-comparative-literature.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Comparative Literature is delighted to announce that Thirthankar Chakraborty has been awarded a PhD under the supervision of Professor Shane Weller and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2017\/01\/31\/congratulations-to-thirthankar-chakraborty\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5829,"featured_media":6935,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[135858,18583,124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6934"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5829"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6934"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6965,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6934\/revisions\/6965"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}