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Literary India

Comparative Studies in Aesthetics, Colonialism, and Culture

Häftad, Engelska, 1995

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Analyzes a variety of materials from the Indian literary tradition. examining both its indigenous development and its relation to the West, and developing ideas from cultural criticism, literary theory, linguistics, and Indology.This anthology explores the possibilities of a non-Eurocentric comparative literature. Contributors explain and analyze a variety of material from the Indian literary tradition, examining both its indigenous development and its relations with the West. In doing this, they draw upon and develop ideas from cultural criticism, literary theory, linguistics, and Indology.This book begins with an examination of Indian and Western views on basic concerns of literary theory and aesthetics: authorship, genre, and literary language. Specific works of Indian literature are discussed, as are the striking similarities between eighth-century Sanskrit romances and Shakespeare's late plays; the indirect links of Asian folk and popular dramatic traditions with Bertolt Brecht's epic theater; the oppositional parallelism that marks Kipling's Kim and Tagore's Gora; the suggestive variations on the theme of exile in contemporary Indian cinema and Sophocles' Theban plays. The book ends with a re-consideration of post-colonial theory drawing on both Indian and European sources.

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Utgivningsdatum1995-07-01
Mått152 x 230 x 18 mm
Vikt417 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieSUNY series in Hindu Studies
Antal sidor289
FörlagState University of New York Press
ISBN9780791423967

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Acknowledgments Introduction: Multicultural Comparatism Part I: India and the Study of Comparative Literature1 Beauty, Politics, and Cultural Otherness: The Bias of Literary DifferencePatrick Colm Hogan Part II: Theorizing Cultural Difference and Cross-CulturalInvariance: Authors, Readers, and Literary Language2 The Question of Authorship in Indian LiteratureJeffrey Ebbesen3 The Genre Theory in Sanskrit PoeticsV. K. Chari4 The Yolk in the Pea-Hen's Egg: Language as the Ultimate RealityW. P. Lehmann Part III: Interpreting Cultural Difference and Cross-Cultural Invariance: Precolonial, Colonial, and Postcolonial5 Patriarchy and Paranoia: Imaginary Infidelity in Uttararamacarita and The Winter's TaleLalita Pandit6 Ray's DeviNorman N. Holland7 The Poetics of Exile and the Politics of HomeUna Chaudhuri Part IV: Hybridity and Universals: An Interlude8 A Sense of Detail and a Sense of Order: Anita DesaiInterviewed by Lalita Pandit Part V: Interpreting Literary Contact: Translation, Influence, and Writing Back9 Translating Indian Literary Texts into EnglishP. K. Saha10 Nautanki and the Struggle for Independence, National Integration, and Social Change: A Brechtian AnalysisDarius L. Swann11 Caste, Race, and Nation: History and Dialectic inRabindranath Tagore's GoraLalita Pandit Part VI: Theorizing Colonial Contact: Hybrid Identities and the Possibility of Postcolonial Culture12 The Postcolonial Critic: Homi BhabhaInterviewed by David Bennett and Terry Collits13 Culture, State, and the Rediscovery of Indian PoliticsAshis Nandy Notes on Contributors Index

"The breadth of discussion of Indian literature is impressive. Texts analyzed range from classical Sanskrit works to contemporary films. Moreover, the use of comparative literature methodologies is certainly illuminating for those who have been schooled mainly in English literature or South Asian Studies. Comparatist approaches offer rich, new possibilities for literary and cultural analysis." — Janet M. Powers, Gettysburg College"In all essays India and its cultural concerns are firmly anchored in global cultural and theoretical perspectives. This focus makes for originality and insight." — Steven F. Walker, Rutgers University