Modern Western Fiction and Sanskrit Aesthetics and Theory: A Search for a Postcolonial Concept

About the Book

A new Idea (Liberal Creativity) shines in this book, Modern Western Fiction and Sanskrit Aesthetics and Theory: A Search for a Postcolonial Concept, bridging the West with the East, exploring a new style in writing, enunciating humanity as one fi eld, and critiquing both Western and Oriental writing. It discusses the stylistic, structural and philosophical approach of Bissundyal’s novel, A River Dreams Red (the fi rst part of his doctoral dissertation), comparing it with other works of Western and Sanskrit tradition. In this process, it announces Bissundyal’s intention to seek a creative path in knowledge through embodied epistemology, refl ection, reading and writing, and to seek a creative centre to fi nd a sanctuary for his artistic pursuits. It also draws from post-structuralism’s deconstruction to show Bissundyal’s disenchantment with structures, centres, systems, hegemonies, and “metanarratives” that suppress individuality, free will and creativity.

About the Author

Churaumanie Bissundyal hails from a little island, Leguan, in the Essequibo River, Guyana. He has completed five novels, five books of poems and fifteen plays. He holds a master’s degree in fine arts (MFA), and teaches advanced Sanskrit in New York.