Critical Humanities from India: Contexts, Issues, Futures

ISBN-13: 9780367735104 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 302 str.

D. Venkat Rao

Opis

The field of humanities generates a discourse that traditionally addressed the questions of what is proper to man, rights of man, crimes against humanity, human creativity and action, human reflection and performance, human utterance and artefact. The university as a philosophical-political institution transmits this humanist account. This volum

Spis treści

List of Figures.  Foreword.  Contributors.  Acknowledgements.  Introduction: Crossing (the) Legacies  1. Education and Structures of Moral Formation: The Limits of Liberal Education in India  2. In-discipline(s): Diversity, Disciplinarity and the Humanities  3. Sites of Learning and Intellectual Parasitism: The Case for New Humanities  4. Why Communalism is an Indian problem: The Relationship between Communalism and Hinduism in Colonial Discourse   5. Sacerdotal Violence and the Caste System: The Long Shadow of Christian-Orientalism  6. Caste as an Impediment in the Journey of a Bhakta: Lingayat Vachanas, Jati and Adhyatma  7. River Literacy and the Challenge of a Rain Terrain   8. Accents of Memory: Critical Humanities and the Question of Inheritance  9. Indian Culture and its Social Security System  10. The Politics of Knowledge, Here and Now: A Conversation with Ashis Nandy.  Glossary.  Index

O autorze

D. Venkat Rao is Professor of English Literature, School of English Literary Studies, The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, India. In addition to books in English and Telugu, he has published several articles in national and international journals. His recent work is Cultures of Memory in South Asia (2014). His other publications include In Citations: Readings in Area Studies of Culture (1999), a translation of Ashis Nandy’s The Intimate Enemy into Telugu. He has also translated into English, a Telugu intellectual autobiography entitled The Last Brahmin (2012). He has co-edited Reflections on Literature, Criticism and Theory (2004) and an anthology of essays on U. R. Ananthamurthy’s Samskara. His interests include literary and cultural studies, image studies, comparative thought, translation, and mnemocultures. He has designed several courses interfacing culture, technology, and literary studies.