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Black Avatar – and Other Essays (Paperback)
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Black Avatar – and Other Essays (Paperback)
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You Save R33 (7%)
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The first nonfiction collection by internationally acclaimed writer
and translator Amit Majmudar, Black Avatar combines elements of
memoir, biography, history, and literary criticism. The eight
pieces in this deeply engaging volume reflect author Amit
Majmudar’s comprehensive studies of American, European, and
Indian traditions, as well as his experiences in both suburban Ohio
and the western Indian state of Gujarat. The volume begins with the
title piece, a fifteen-part examination of “How Colorism Came to
India.” Tracing the evolution of India’s bias in favor of light
skin, Majmudar reflects on the effects of colonialism, drawing upon
sources ranging from early Sanskrit texts to contemporary film and
television. Other essays illuminate subjects both timely and
timeless. “The Ramayana and the Birth of Poetry” discusses how
suffering is portrayed in art and literature (“The spectrum of
suffering: slapstick on one end, scripture on the other, with
fiction and poetry . . . in the vastness between them”), while in
“Five Famous Asian War Photographs”—a 2018 Best American
Essays selection—Majmudar analyzes why these iconic images of
atrocity have such emotional resonance. In “Nature/Worship,”
another multi-part piece, the author turns his attention to climate
change, linking notions of environmentalism to his ancestral
tradition of finding divinity within the natural world, connections
that form the basis of religious belief. Perhaps the greatest
achievement of these wide-ranging essays is the prose
itself—learned yet lively, erudite yet accessible—nimbly
revealing the workings of a wonderfully original mind.
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