Critical Discourse in Telugu

ISBN-13: 9781138550315 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 14 str.

K. Suneetha Rani

Opis

This volume offers crucial insights into the making of Telugu literature and its critical tradition across a century. It brings together English translation of 32 major writings dealing with literary criticism and theory, aesthetic and performative traditions and re-interpretations of primary concepts and categories in Telugu.

Spis treści

1. Women’s Education [February 1875]  2. Prologue to A Memorandum on Modern Telugu  3. Prologue to Radhika Santvanamu  4. Foreword to History of Telugu Literature  5. The Harm Caused to Telugu  6. The Sitamma Tikkanna Sculpted  7. Introduction to Musalamma Maranamu  8. Man and Woman (Excluding the Aspect of Love)  9. Freedom of the Artist  10. Purpose of Poetry  11. The Structure of Poetic Revolutions  12. Those Six Poets  13. Why Sanskrit, Oh Swami?  14. The Word is the World  15. The Story of Rama and the Class Character  16. First Generation Short Stories of Telangana  17. The Origins of Telugu Drama That One Does Not Wish to See  18. Literary Criticism, too, is Social Praxis  19. Music That’s Snapping Its Shackles  20. Protest against the Caste Hegemony  21. Literature and its Philosophical Premise  22. The Trajectories of Kalingandhra Story  23. Rasa and Women’s Experience  24. Why has Madhuravani Changed?  25. Reflections on Marxist Literary Criticism in Telugu  26. Coarse Winnows that Sift Literature  27. Difference of Perspectives between Dalit Literature and Revolutionary Literature  28. The Furnace  29. A Garden of Mirrors: Reclaiming the Sufi Past and Contemporary Muslim Discourse  30. Poetry is but the Reflection of Realistic Identities  31. Muslim Women’s Poetry  32. The Story of Yellamma: The Philosophical Perspective

O autorze

K. Suneetha Rani is Professor at the Centre for Women’s Studies, University of Hyderabad, India. She taught at the Department of English, Women's University, Tirupati and the Department of English,　University of Hyderabad, before joining the Centre for Women's Studies in 2011. Her areas of interest include gender studies, cultural studies, comparative studies, new literatures in English and translation studies. She translates from Telugu to English and vice versa. She has extensively published research articles and translations in English and Telugu. Her major publications in English　include　Australian Aboriginal Women’s Autobiographies: A Critical Study　(2006); Flowering from the Soil: Dalit Women’s Writing from Telugu　(translation of Dalit women’s select writings from Telugu, 2012); English in the Dalit Context　(co-editor, 2014);　Vibhinna: Voices from Contemporary Telugu Writing　(co-editor, 2015); A House on the Outskirts and Other Stories (translation of Devarakonda Balagangadhara Tilak’s select short fiction from Telugu, 2016); Influence of English on Indian Women Writers: Voices from the Regional Languages　(2017);　Identities and Assertions: Dalit Women’s Narratives　(2017);　and The Rock That Was Not (translation of Githanjali’s select short fiction from Telugu, 2019).