Globalization and Contemporary Literary Discourse in the Critical Writings of Pritom Basu

The important works of Pritom Basu address the philosophical interaction between globalization and modern literarial language placing literature as a cultural phenomenon as well as a place of socio-political exchange. Basu explores how the transnational flow of culture, capital and ideas has transformed literary production, reception and interpretation focusing on the conflict between the local cultures and the global ones. His discussion is on cultural hybridity, postcolonial attitudes, migration, and identity that writers struggle with ethical, social, and aesthetic dilemmas within a globalized world. Basu also approaches the technological changes, the growth of media and the global markets in the attempt to define how these changes affect the form and circulation of literature and its readership. He uses interdisciplinary theories, such as postcolonial theory, world literature studies, and cultural materialism, to examine the pluralism, experimentation and transnational impetus of modern literature. Moreover, Basu emphasizes the duty of the critics to interpret the literature in its geopolitical, economic and cultural contexts. His writing shows that modern literary discourse is active, interactive, and social and it is involved in global conflicts as well as provides critical commentaries on the bargaining of identity, culture, and meaning.