{"id":144,"date":"2012-06-14T09:36:13","date_gmt":"2012-06-14T09:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.ryerson.ca\/asianheritage\/authors\/shyamal-bagchee\/"},"modified":"2024-08-12T12:42:20","modified_gmt":"2024-08-12T16:42:20","slug":"bagchee","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/authors\/bagchee\/","title":{"rendered":"Shyamal Bagchee"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"bottomborder\">\n<div class=\"narrow\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/files\/2012\/06\/bagchee.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"87\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 100px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 100\/87;\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wide\">Shyamal Bagchee was born in India. He attended universities in Delhi, Hamilton, and Toronto, where he completed a Ph.D. in English literature at York University in 1981 with a dissertation titled, &#8220;<span class=\"bold\">Modernism, Post-modernism, and the Novels of John Fowles<\/span>.&#8221; He has also edited a volume of new critical essays on Eugene O&#8217;Neill. Bagchee lives in St. Albert, Alberta. He is a professor emeritus of English at the University of Alberta in Edmonton.<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"bottomborder\">\n<div class=\"narrow\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/files\/2012\/06\/gabardine.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"160\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 160px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 160\/160;\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"wide\">\n<h3>Poetry<\/h3>\n<h3>Gabardine and Other Poems<\/h3>\n<p>Toronto: TSAR, 2004.<\/p>\n<h4>Publisher&#8217;s Synopsis (from its Fall 2004 Catalogue)<\/h4>\n<p>Written at locations as widely disparate as eastern India, northern Canada, western Bolivia, southern Ireland, and even the taxiway at Boston&#8217;s Logan airport, these poems explore the broad reach of the English erotic idiom. These are poems about love&#8211;sometimes licit though often not&#8211;lust, and the language of desire. Not primarily concerned with displacement or diasporic experience, they nevertheless reveal a deracinate and dark-limbed Krishna sort of fellow&#8211;reminiscent of classical Sanskrit erotic poetry&#8211;flitting in and out of these pages.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"bottomborder\">\n<div class=\"narrow\"><a href=\"https:\/\/torontomu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com\/discovery\/fulldisplay?vid=01OCUL_TMU:01OCUL_TMU&#038;docid=alma991001735649708636\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/files\/2012\/06\/scrupulous.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"222\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 150px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 150\/222;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"wide\">\n<h3>Poetry<\/h3>\n<h3>A Scrupulous Meanness and Other Poems<\/h3>\n<p>Ottawa: BuschekBooks, 2004.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/torontomu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com\/discovery\/fulldisplay?vid=01OCUL_TMU:01OCUL_TMU&#038;docid=alma991001735649708636\">PS8603 .A44 S37 2004<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"narrow\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"wide\">\n<h3>Selected Criticism and Interpretation<\/h3>\n<div>Chilana, Rajwant Singh. &#8220;Shyamal Bagchee.&#8221; In <em>South Asian Writers in Canada: A Bio-Bibliographical Study<\/em>. Surrey, BC: Asian Publications, 2017, 288.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/torontomu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com\/discovery\/fulldisplay?vid=01OCUL_TMU:01OCUL_TMU&#038;docid=alma991008386229708636\">Z1376 .S68 C45 2017<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<div class=\"narrow\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"wide\">\n<h3>Links<\/h3>\n<p>Publisher <a href=\"http:\/\/www3.sympatico.ca\/buschek.books\/\">BuschekBooks <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publisher <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mawenzihouse.com\/\">Mawenzi House<\/a> (formerly TSAR)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shyamal Bagchee was born in India. He attended universities in Delhi, Hamilton, and Toronto, where he completed a Ph.D. in English literature at York University in 1981 with a dissertation titled, &#8220;Modernism, Post-modernism, and the Novels of John Fowles.&#8221; He &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/authors\/bagchee\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":16,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-144","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18759,"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/144\/revisions\/18759"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}