Sourav Das
Assistant Professor
Department of English & Literary Studies
Brainware University, Barasat, West Bengal, 700125
"And the silken, sad, uncertain rustling of each purple curtain
Thrilled me—filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before"
Qualifications
Doctoral Scholar, Migration and Transnational Studies, St. Xavier's University, Kolkata.
B.Ed (English), WBUTTEPA, 2019.
MA (English), Maulana Azad College, Calcutta University, 2016.
BA Hons (English), SA Jaipuria College, Calcutta University, 2014.
Research Interest
Postcolonial Literature and Theory, Diaspora, Migration and Transnational Studies.
Publications
"Saadat Hasan Manto and his treatment of the Debased Feminine" -- Ashvamegh International Peer Reviewed Online Literary Journal (ISSN-2454-4574)
"A Postcolonial re-reading of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot" -- Langlit an International Peer Reviewed Open Access Journal (ISSN-2349-5189)
“Joyce and the Irish Stagnation: A Journey To Persia and Back” – IASET International Journal of Linguistics and Literature (ISSN Print:2319-3956; ISSN Online:2319-3964)
“The Body and Its Scars: The Stigma Texts of Saadat Hasan Manto” - Erothanatos, A Peer-Reviewed Quarterly Journal on Literature, Vol. 3 Issue 2 April 2019 (E-ISSN 2457-0265) .
"The Search for the Female Identity in Literature: The Quest for a Voice" -- Feminism: Text and Context (ISBN-978-81-922645-6-1)-Page 201-209.
The paper “Narratives of Return and Caribbean Literature” has been accepted as a Book Chapter in the anthology Marginalisation in Literature: Critical Perspectives edited by Dr. Bhaskar Chandra Sarkar.
Other Professional Activities
Presented the paper "The Us and the Them: Conrad’s Ushering of the new Century" at the International Seminar RETHINKING MODERNITY:INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES conducted by Aliah University in collaboration with the Byanjanbarna Foundation in August 2019.
Presented the paper “Displacement and Derogation: Mapping Partition Violence in Saadat Hasan Manto” in the National Seminar on BANGLA & OTHER INDIAN LANGUAGES: LINGUISTICS & CULTURAL RELATIONS organized by The International School of Dravidian Languages, Kerala in March 2020.
Presented the paper “The Post-Colonial Condition: Situating the Pathos of Caribbean Diasporic Identity” in the International e-Conference on RETHINKING THE POSTCOLONIAL: TEXT & CONTEXT organized by New Literaria: An International Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities in Collaboration with Assam University in September, 2020.
Presented the paper “Where Selves Collide: The Caribbean and the Diasporic Pathos” in the 2nd DOCTORAL COLLOQUIUM 2020 organized by St. Xavier’s University, Kolkata in October 2020.