Surrealism, Vernacular Modernism, and the Poetics of the Uncanny: Re-reading Jibanananda Das
This article re-examines the relationship between European Surrealism and the poetry of Jibanananda Das (1899–1954) through a comparative close reading of selected poems, with particular attention to imagery, temporality, colour, dream logic, defamiliarization, and the representation of the uncanny. Existing criticism...