From Canon to Covid: Transforming English Literary Studies in India. Essays in Honour of Gjv Prasad

ISBN-13: 9780367768348 / Angielski

Angelie Multani; Swati Pal; Nandini Saha

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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. Tracing this transition, the volume discusses themes like Indian literary history, post-colonial theory, post-pandemic challenges to literary studies, the state of Indian-English drama, vernacular literature in English studies and pedagogy, translations of feminist writers from South Asia, caste, and othering in literature, among other key themes. The volume, with contributions from eminent English Studies scholars not only reflects the altered terrain of English Language and Literature in India, but also invites readers to think about the transformative potential of the present juncture for both literary imagination and literary studies.This timely book, in honour of Professor GJV Prasad, will be of interest to scholars and researchers of English studies, cultural studies, literature, comparative literature, translation studies, postcolonial studies and critical theory. 

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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