Mysticism or Militancy for Truth-Event: Reflections on Muktibodhian Fantasy
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This research paper endeavours to illuminate the relationship of literary text with truth-procedure in the context of renowned Hindi poet and literary thinker Gajanan Madhav Muktibodh’s mythical fantasies. In this direction, the present work intends to discern the role of fantasy in literary texts. The dialectics of detachment and attachment can be discerned in Muktibodh’s Three Moments of Art, which gives us insight into the redemption of myth or mythical history to generalise truth-procedure of art. With this critical insight embedded, this paper attempts to reflect upon the demystified mythical fantasy as poetic praxis, specifically in the context of Muktibodh’s epic poem Bramhrakshas, the myth of Bramhrakshas, and the philosophical and mythical connotations of Brahma in Indian civilisation. As a revolutionary poet, Muktibodh redeems these myths from their mythical mist and liberates fantasy as a literary device from its identitarian mystic manifestation.
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