My Days at American Campuses

By: Basudeb Chakaraborti

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ISBN: 9789391734220
Year: 2023
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Total Pages: 152


About The Book

My Days at American Campuses is a Campus novel. It describes the life of the main Campus of the University of Calcutta, India, then the life of the University of Houston, Texas and finally the life of American Federal Government sponsored Centre for Petrarchan Studies at Arezzo, Italy. The narrative is a faithfully artistic delineation of relationship between the teacher and the taught, between staff room intrigues, free mixing of grown up boys and girls, their sex, their marriages, problems of single parent child, problems related to divorce, consequence of frequent divorces upon American society, problems of unwed mothers and their children and many other related problems. While describing all these, the author also makes a Idetailed comparative study between the American cultural scenarios of the Americans and the millennium old cultural tradition of their Indian counterparts.

My Days at American Campuses may be considered an autobiographical novel. Whether it is a memoir or an autobiographical novel, may be left to Reader Responses. Readers may assume it in any way they think. It may be said that every autobiographer is a creative liar. No autobiographer can present publicly certain facts of his own life. No autobiographer can present publicly the hidden facts of his own life. He has to live in a society. Sometimes an autobiographer may reveal very private secrets of his subconscious mind only to arrest the attention of readers and to increase the sale of his autobiography. Our conscious mind is structured and sub- conscious mind is also guided by our belief of the right and wrong. Like an autobiographer, a smart memoirist can play the same trick.

About Author

asudeb Chakraborti (b.1948) is the former Professor and  Faculty Dean of the University of
Kalyani,West-Bengal and the former Founder Professor of English, Sikkim Central University at Gangtok.
After obtaining a Master’s degree in English from the University of Calcutta, Professor Chakraborti
proceeded to Houston, Texas, and completed the Master’s programme in English at the University of
Houston at Clear Lake City in 1981.Coming back to India, he did his M.Phil, in English from Nagpur
University and followed this up with a diploma in English Language Teaching from CIEFL, Hyderabad.
Professor Chakraborti Was awarded the degree of PhD in English from the University of Kalyani in 1996.
He published his doctoral thesis in 1997. The following are his publication:
1. Thomas Hardy’s View of Happiness: A Study of his Major Novels and Short stories. Minerva
Associates,Calcutta, 1977 (Professors Chakraborti’s doctoral thesis).  
2.  Indian Partition Fiction in English and English translation:A Text on Hindu-Muslim Relationship,2020.
Reprinted by Today and Tomorrow’s Printers and Publishers, New Delhi, 2021. 
3. Some Problems of Translation:A Study of Tagore’s Red Oleanders: A Study of Tagore’s Red
Oleanders, Reprinted by Today and Tomorrow’s Printers and Publishers, New Delhi, 2021.
4. A Talent for the Particular: Critical Essays on R.K. Narayan. Ed. Raymond-Jean & Basudeb
Chakraborti. World View, New Delhi, 2012.
5. Gender Perspectives: South Asian Writings in English and English Translation.ed. Basudeb
Chakraborti & A.S. Chandel. Today and Tomorrow’s Printers and Publishers, New Delhi,2014.

6. Today and Tomorrow’s Printers and Publishers,New Delhi,  published Professor Chakraborti’s
three Anthologies of Indian Poems in English.
Titles of those anthologies are:
a) The Confession of an Indian Opium-Eater: A Collection of Indian Poems in English,2018.
b) Pan Indian Poetry in English Spanning First Two Decades of 21st century, 2019.
c) My Mind and its By-lanes: A collection of Indian Poems in English, 2021.
 
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