Relocating Bakhtin

Relocating Bakhtin is a unique discourse that proposes to decipher the nuances of polyphonic Bakhtinian thoughts in varying contexts of lived experiences. Ever since Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin arrived with a bang in the firmament of international literary theory and criticism, the generic features and phenomenal possibilities of the Novel are being redefined and rediscovered everywhere. In the Indian sub-continent too, the scholars and creative thinkers are equally inspired by Bakhtin. His cardinal concept of dialogue and its supplements like heteroglossia, carnival, chronotope, simultaneity of existence, unfinalisability, answerability etc. have in fact transformed the thought processes of the connoisseurs of literature. The author, widely acclaimed for his erudition and unputdownable contribution to the theoretical exposition and critical interpretation of world literature, has traced the deepening impact of Bakhtin on the receptive Indian readers in general and contemporary Bengali novels in partcular.