Description:
This book offers intimate readings of a diverse range of global autobiographical literature with an emphasis on the (re)presentation of the physical body.
Review Quotes:
'Aakash Singh Rathore repeatedly evokes the fragile, niggling core of the body upon which rests many a lofty thought. Chapter after chapter, story after story, the author needles, unsettles, and satisfies the reader.'
Navtej Johar, somatic practitioner, scholar and urban activist based in India
'In this wide-ranging and engrossing study, Aakash Singh Rathore examines the way life-writing configures the flesh and transmutes the morphology of spirit. Rathore not only offers refreshing new readings of multicultural and multinational autobiographical texts, but also a new understanding of human subjectivity and "me-ness".'
Makarand Paranjape, Director, Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, India
'Through a first-person reading of diverse autobiographies, Rathore posits the genre's inherent dependence on the potency of the flesh as the central means of experiencing life's truths, reminiscent of Yogic-Tantric practices.'
Rashmi Poddar, Director, Jnanapravaha Mumbai, India