The Amateur
Majumdar, Saikat![The Amateur](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/448/44840750/CHSBZCOP0344840750.jpg)
The institutionalization of a literary curriculum was part of the ideological enterprise of British rule in the colony. The Amateur considers a phenomenon at striking odds with this imperial enterprise to create a certain kind of professional subject: namely, the trajectory and oeuvre of a range of postcolonial thinkers and writers whose provocative appeal derive from their positions as amateurs and autodidacts.
Saikat Majumdar examines a va...