East of Delhi: Multilingual Literary Culture and World Literature examines literature produced, practiced, and circulated in and out of North India, focusing on the region of Awadh, from the beginning of recorded vernacular literature in the late fourteenth century to the colonial era of the early twentieth century. Author Francesca Orsini considers texts in a wide range of genres-courtly, devotional, and popular-composed in the main languages of the region: Hindavi, Persian, Brajbhasha, and Urdu.
East of Delhi: Multilingual Literary Culture and World Literature examines literature produced, practiced, and circulated in and out of North India, focusing on the region of Awadh, from the beginning of recorded vernacular literature in the late fourteenth century to the colonial era of the early twentieth century. Author Francesca Orsini considers texts in a wide range of genres-courtly, devotional, and popular-composed in the main languages of the region: Hindavi, Persian, Brajbhasha, and Urdu.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Francesca Orsini is Professor Emerita of Hindi and South Asian Literature at SOAS, University of London. After earning an undergraduate degree in Hindi at Venice University and living in Delhi, she completed her PhD at SOAS. She taught at the University of Cambridge and SOAS and held visiting positions at Columbia University and the University of Pennsylvania. She was a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies, Harvard, and is a Fellow of the British Academy, a regional editor of the Murty Classical Library of India, and an editor of the Cambridge Studies in World Literature series.
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* Acknowledgements * Note on Transliteration * Map * List of Figures and Tables * Introduction: A multilingual local in world literature * 1. Following stories across scripts, languages, and repertoires * 2. Making space for Sant texts: Orature, literary history, and world literature * 3. Local cosmopolitans: Poetry and distinction in the small towns and courts of Awadh * 4. Colonial impact and Indian response * Conclusions: Thinking through space
* Acknowledgements * Note on Transliteration * Map * List of Figures and Tables * Introduction: A multilingual local in world literature * 1. Following stories across scripts, languages, and repertoires * 2. Making space for Sant texts: Orature, literary history, and world literature * 3. Local cosmopolitans: Poetry and distinction in the small towns and courts of Awadh * 4. Colonial impact and Indian response * Conclusions: Thinking through space
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