A review by Shyamasri Maji in the World Literature Today
Chaitali Sengupta’s The Crossings focuses largely on the pity that war entails. It presents war as having an intersectional trajectory of destruction, displacement, and dispossession. Sengupta, an Indian journalist, translator, and poet currently living in the Netherlands, examines this conflicted space in three sections, each taking a closer look into the collective consciousness of war victims and their progeny.
Her diasporic experience familiarizes her with war-torn topographies beyond South Asia. She suggests that the continent of Europe, as it stands today, “is largely the outcome of two great wars,” stating that, “visiting the monuments of two world wars spread throughout Europe leaves you with no doubt as to how all-encompassing those wars were.”
Read the full review at: https://www.worldliteraturetoday.org/2024/july/crossings-poems-war-migration-and-survival-chaitali-sengupta
https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/431/article/931114/pdf
Book signing at Book Presentation The Crossings, 15th June, 2024.
