Performative Reflections of Indian Traditions

Towards a Liveable Learning

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

AvD. Venkat Rao

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This book focuses on the cohering elements across various texts and traditions of India. It addresses questions such as: what enabled cultural communication across very divergent geographical, temporal, locational contexts and among different cultural formations of India over millennia?

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Utgivningsdatum2021-10-01
Mått155 x 235 x undefined mm
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor268
FörlagSpringer Verlag, Singapore
ISBN9789811623905

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D. Venkat Rao teaches at the English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad. His recent work is Critical Humanities from India: Contexts, Issues, Futures (Routledge, 2018), and his other publications include Cultures of Memory in South Asia (Springer, 2014) and a translation into English of a Telugu intellectual autobiography called The Last Brahmin (2007, 2012 and 2017). His areas of interest include literary and cultural studies, image studies, epic traditions, visual cultures, comparative thought, translation, Indian traditions and mnemocultures. He has designed several courses interfacing areas of culture, technology and literary and cultural studies.

Formations of the (Im)Possible: A Prolegomenon.- Charaka’s Pharmacia.- Vyasa’s Paravisions.- Bharata’s Performative Teleosis.- Sarngadeva’s Primal Sonances.- Manu’s Mnemopraxials.- (A)Para Poiesis.- Mnemoscapes of Water: The Vaangmaya of Rains and Rivers in Indian Traditions.- Teleocultural Mediations: In Performing Traditions of the Ramayana.- Inventions of the Literary and Affirmations of Inheritance: The Enduring Legacies of Viswanatha Satyanarayana.