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This essay introduces the intent, scope, and other essays of the anthology. It engages with the question of the significance of Rabindranath Tagore in our times, both in the milieu of his birth, Bengal, and in the world. Significance here refers also to both senses of the operation of Rabindranath Tagore as a sign or “author function” in the milieus of his reception and as a subjectivity which escapes definition, yet renews itself through a politics of punctuation. It is in these senses that the introduction explicates the volume’s choices of essays to tap into the unexpressed fertility of Tagore’s texts, rescuing them from museological obsolescence and making them live as part of the performative politics of our times.
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Chaudhuri, A. (2008). Clearing a space: Reflections on India, literature and culture. London: Peter Lang.
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Banerji, D. (2015). Introduction—Theory and the Performative Politics of Punctuation. In: Banerji, D. (eds) Rabindranath Tagore in the 21st Century. Sophia Studies in Cross-cultural Philosophy of Traditions and Cultures, vol 7. Springer, New Delhi. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-2038-1_1
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