From Canon to Covid (eBook, PDF)

Transforming English Literary Studies in India. Essays in Honour of GJV Prasad
Redaktion: Multani, Angelie; Ghosh, Arjun; Shakil, Albeena; Saha, Nandini; Pal, Swati

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Produktbeschreibung

This multi-genre collection of essays presents the dramatic transformation of English Studies in India since the early 1990s. It showcases the shift from the study of mainly British literature and language to a more versatile terrain of multilingualism, culture, performance, theory, and the literary global South.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 278
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. August 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000892161
• Artikelnr.: 68302945

Autorenporträt

Angelie Multani is Professor of Literature in the Department of Humanities & Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi, India. Swati Pal is the Principal of Janki Devi Memorial College, University of Delhi, India, where she is also Professor in the Department of English. Nandini Saha is Professor in the Department of English, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India. Albeena Shakil is Professor of English at the O.P. Jindal Global University, India. Arjun Ghosh is Professor in the Department of Humanities & Social Sciences, IIT Delhi, India.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword
Introduction
SUB-THEME I: LITERARY STUDIES IN INDIA
1 Rethinking and Resituating Histories of Indian Literature(s)
2 Coronavirus Spacesuits: Or, Hard Times as Launching Pads for Literary
Travel
3 The Pandemic and the Postcolonial
4 From 'Commonwealth' to 'Global South': Engaging with African Literature
in Indian Literary Studies
SUB-THEME II: DRAMA
5 The State of the Stage: An Interview with Mahesh Dattani
6 Performing the Dalit: A Reading of Dalit Plays
7 Interpreting Euripides's Medea in the Contemporary Indian Context
SUB-THEME III: POETRY
8 Poetry, Plague and Locusts: About Writing Sonnets on the Black Death
9 Translation and Variation: Literary Studies, Reading Practices, and the
Vernacular
10 Of Dreamtime and Dream-tracks: Revisiting Australian Indigenous Identity
Construction with Reference to Select Poems by Oodgeroo Noonuccal and Kevin
Gilbert
SUB-THEME IV: TRANSLATION AND TRANSCREATION
11 An Equal Music
12 Translation, Interpretation, and Transcreation: Texts and Contexts in
the Indian Scenario
13 Translating South Asia: Women and Radical Textuality
SUB-THEME V: FICTION, LANGUAGE, AND CONTEXT
14 Are the Ghosts in Henry James's The Turn of the Screw Real?
15 Marginalization and Dispossession in the Kashmiri Novel: A Look at Mirza
Waheed's The Collaborator
16 Calling Local/Talking Global: The Cosmopolitics of the Call-Centre
Industry
17 An Emerging Literary Tradition: An Overview of Writings in English from
the Northeast