Contemporaneity of the Mahabharata Narrative (eBook, ePUB)

Epic of the Moment
Redaktion: Bhattacharjee, Anirban; Sarkar, Dhrubajyoti

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This volume looks at the problem from diverse periods and standpoints and shows us that this challenge is, in fact, a legacy of the Mahabharata and the responses to this challenge is what makes the text ever-contemporary to different readers of different times and positions.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. September 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040125656
• Artikelnr.: 72272573

Autorenporträt

Anirban Bhattacharjee (PhD, CSSSC & JU, Kolkata) is an Assistant Professor of English at Santipur College and a visiting faculty at IISER, Kolkata. He has a sustained interest in the Mahabharata and is part of several international research groups on the text. He presented the opening plenary of the 2018 meeting of South Asian Literary Association. His recently edited volume is titled Mahabharate Himsa (2022). Dhrubajyoti Sarkar teaches at the Department of English, University of Kalyani. His research interests are religious nationalism and religion-culture interface in the context of nineteenth-century South Asia.

Inhaltsangabe

Contributors ix Foreword xii Sibaji Bandyopadhyay Preface and
Acknowledgement xxiii Introduction 1 Anirban Bhattacharjee and Dhrubajyoti
Sarkar PART I 1 Asvamedhaparva: Jaimini and Vyasa 17 Sekhar Kumar Sen 2
Nilakantha's Mahabharata and Presentist Objections to His Work 37
Christopher Minkowski 3 Dramatic War, Fabulous Stories, and Legendary
Kings: Persian Adaptation of Mahabharata as Razmnama 48 Kashshaf Ghani 4 On
Adaptation and Appropriation: Some Observations on the Sources of the
Mushalaparva in Kashiramadasa's Bengali Mahabharata 66 Soham Pain 5 Bankim
Chandra Chattopadhyay's Lonely Middle Course: A Reading of the Mahabharata
in Krishnacharitra 83 Dhrubajyoti Sarkar 6 Relocating Mahabharatian
Dystopia in Post-independent India: Reading Rangabharata as a Political
Caricature of the Nehruvian Times 99 Pinak Sankar Bhattacharya 7 "Doomsday
Epic"? P. Lal's The Mahabharata of Vyasa and the Influence of European
Modernism 110 Prayag Ray 8 Irreverent Readers, Worshipful Viewers:
Post-emergency Epics and Diverging Indian Nationalisms 121 Sucheta Kanjilal
9 Orality of "Then" and "Now": Narrating the Mahabharata on Television 138
Sneha Roy Choudhury 10 Psychobiography and Authorial Subjectivity in the
(Re) presentation of Draupadi: Towards a Feminist Mythopoeia in Select
Retellings of the Mahabharata 153 Komal Agarwal 11 A World of Images: The
Visual Identity of the Mahabharata 170 Sankha Banerjee PART II 12 The
"Avengers" in an Itihasa: Reading Revenge in the Mahabharata 183 Kanad
Sinha 13 Otherwise than Being: The Mahabharata, the Animal, and the
Eruption of the Ethical 202 Anirban Bhattacharjee 14 The Mahabharata War
and Ambedkar's Critique of Violence and Nationalism 212 Kalyan Kumar Das
Afterthoughts: In Search of the Antecedents to the Mahabharata Concept and
Ideal of Anrisamsya: Random Reflections 224 Ranabir Chakravarti Index 241