Modern Indian Literature As Cosmopolis: Conversations with Hanuman

This book redefines modern Indian literature from a cosmopolitan comparative perspective inclusive of literature in English from India and the diaspora, in native languages, and works by non-Indians. Its aesthetic approach of modern classics as well as popular, regional or minority texts treats Indi...

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1. Verfasser: Coste, Didier 1946- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York Taylor & Francis Group 2025
Ausgabe:1st ed.
Schriftenreihe:Routledge Studies in Comparative Literature
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Zusammenfassung:This book redefines modern Indian literature from a cosmopolitan comparative perspective inclusive of literature in English from India and the diaspora, in native languages, and works by non-Indians. Its aesthetic approach of modern classics as well as popular, regional or minority texts treats Indianness as a world model in construction.
Cover -- Endorsements Page -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Introduction: Indialab and the Wild Kromosome -- Part 1 Sites of Literary Thought: Theorizing with "India." -- Introduction: Complexity as Cliché and as Field Extension -- 1 Indian Literature as a Comparative Exercise -- 2 World Literature: Home and/or the World? -- 3 Postcoloniality: Beyond and Besides -- 4 Rasa, Dhvani, Raga, Reading -- Part 2 Versatile (Mis)understandings -- Introduction: Marabar Caves Forever-a Mystique of Unknowing? -- 5 Firangi Visions -- 6 Divided Togetherness: Maitreyi and Mircea -- 7 Elusive, Liminal, and Imagined Indiannesses -- Part 3 Transmission, Transformation, Transgression -- Introduction: Indian Untranslatables and Transmission -- 8 Transnation, Translation, Heteroglossia -- 9 Transgender and Transgenre -- 10 Form and Metamorphoses in Poetry -- Part 4 Fictional and Argumentative Aesthetics -- Introduction: Aesthetic Dimensions in Practice -- 11 Aesthetics of Disorder and Disaster -- 12 Aesthetics of Blood and Flesh -- 13 Participation and Embodiment in Arundhati Roy's Nonfiction -- Part 5 Benefiting from Loss -- Introduction: Days of Future Past and Past Futures -- 14 Gods and Ghosts in Our Backyard -- 15 History into Fiction or Vice Versa -- 16 Comparative Exclusions -- 17 Unfulfilled Femininities -- Postscript: Vagrant Non-endings: A Conversation with Dr. Gautam Chakrabarti -- Works Cited -- Index.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (324 pages)
ISBN:9781003471479
DOI:10.4324/9781003471479

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