Interdisciplinary Alter-natives in Comparative Literature

1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-93-5328-993-5
Verlag: SAGE Publications

Buch, Englisch, 262 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 340 g

Interdisciplinary Alter-natives in Comparative Literature examines the directions taken by Comparative Literature in recent years and maps the shifts in paradigms that are in process. Alternative discourses of Comparative Literature are explored in the volume with reference to the ongoing debates on World Literature, contemporary interpretations of the canon, the dialectic of resistance embodied in cultural productions of the region and the contestations implicit in the oral and performative traditions.

The nineteen essays in the five sections of the volume also discuss the challenges and opportunities provided by the emergence of areas like Culture Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Gender Studies, Translation Studies, etc. The essays emphasize the need to transform Comparative Literature into a discipline capable of coping with the crisis in humanities in the twenty-first century, based on the multilingual, multicultural experiences of countries like India.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ramakrishnan, E V

Trivedi, Harish

Mohan, Chandra

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

I: INTRODUCTION
Comparative Literature: Changing Paradigms - E V Ramakrishnan

Comparative Literature, World Literature and Indian Literature: Concepts and Models - Harish Trivedi

II: WORLD LITERATURE AND COMPARATIVE LITERATURE: A DIALOGUE
Literary History in a Global Age: The Legacy of Sisir Kumar Das - David Damrosch

Literature as Supermarket: Mapping World Literature Today - P P Raveendran

World Literature in the Context of Indian Literatures - T S Satyanath

A New Ethics of Comparative Literature: Methodological Considerations - Sieghild Bogumil

The Subaltern Can Speak: Letters from the Trenches and Across the Black Waters - Dorothy Figueria

III: RABINDRANATH TAGORE: CANON AND/AS CONTEMPORARY
Tagore as World Literature - Amiya Dev

Letters of Tagore and His Notions of the Feminine - Indra Nath Choudhuri

"True, No One has the Plan of the Edifice": Rabindranath Tagore’s Concept of World Literature - Subha Chakraborty Dasgupta

Rabindranath Tagore's Reception in Gujarati Literature - Anila Dalal

IV: CREATIVE RESPONSES TO REGION AND RESISTANCE
Indian Literature and Universalism - Bhalchandra Nemade

Theorizing Resistance and Creativity - Jasbir Jain

The Interface of the Progressive/Romantic and the Modernist in Urdu Poetry - Anisur Rahman

The New Middle Class, Caste and Post-1975 Marathi Fiction - Harishchandra Thorat

V: REORIENTATIONS: BEYOND COLONIAL FRAMES
The Gita Govinda and the Problems of Orientalistic Representation - Balaji Ranganathan

Problematizing Androgyny: Female Impersonation in Indian Theatre - Barleen Kaur

Mapping the Dark One: Krishna in the Mahabharat Stories - Sakshi Soni

Manuscriptology in Modern India: Perspectives on the Manusamhita - Piyali Sen Ghosh

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Ramakrishnan, E V
Professor E V Ramakrishnan has published poetry and criticism in English and Malayalam. As a translator he has translated poetry from Malayalam, Hindi and Gujarati into English. Among his research interests are Comparative Indian Literature, Translation Studies and Malayalam Literature/Kerala Culture. Among his publications in English are Making It New: Modernism in Malayalam, Marathi and Hindi (1995), Narrating India: The Novel in Search of the Nation (Edited, 2001) and Locating Indian Literature: Texts, Traditions, Translations (2011). Among his publications in Malayalam are Aksharavum Adhunikatayum (Received the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award for Literary Criticism in 1995), Desheeyatakalum Sahityavum (2001) and Anubhavangale Aarkkanu Peti (2012). He is presently Professor and Dean at the School of Language, Literature and Culture Studies at Central University of Gujarat, Gandhinagar.