Literary Cultures and Digital Humanities in India

ISBN-13: 9781032056739 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 348 str.

Opis

This book explores the use of digital technologies to understand, interpret, and annotate the poetics of Indian literary and cultural texts which circulate in digital forms — in manuscript, and as oral or musical performance.

Spis treści

Introduction PART I: Digital Humanities from the Sidelines: Theoretical Considerations 1. Digital Cultures in India: Digitality and its Discontents 2. Digital Literary Studies in Uncertain Times 3. Reading World Literature at a Distance: Challenges and Opportunities PART II: Archives, Ethics, Praxis 4. Digital Archives for Indian Literatures and Cultures: Challenges and Prospects 5. Bichitra: The Online Tagore Varororium Project 6. Presenting Purple Pencil Project as a case study of Digital Humanities Project in Practice in the field of Indian Literatures 7. Archiving “Community’s Voices” in Karbi Anglong: Collective Memory and Digital Apprehensions 8. Rekhta to Rekhta.org: Digital Remapping of Urdu Literary Culture and Public Sphere PART III:  Forms in Flux I: Trajectories of Digital Cultures in Indian Literatures 9. Digitizing Derozio: Mapping the Local and the Global Contexts of an Anglo-Indian Poet 10. The Internet in the Context of Indian Women’s Poetry in English 11. Putting the Local in the Global- Indian Graphic Novels the New Vogue of The Indian Writing in English 12. Quantitative Stepwise Analysis of the Impact of Technology in Indian English Novels 1947-2001 13. Un-scripting the Narrative: The Special Case of Hindi-Urdu Audiobook PART IV: Forms in Flux II: Born Digital 14. Voices of the 'Missing': Subaltern Poetics in Indian Videogames 15. Narrative and Play: Some Reflections on Videogames Based on Bollywood 16. Hitman 2 and its spectre of Mumbai: A city lost in translation. 17. Electronic Literature in India: Where is it Does it even exist?” Nirmala Menon and Justy Joseph PART V: Digital Atmospheres 18. The Cult of YouTube Mushairas in India’s Small Towns 19. Performative Politics in Digital Spaces: An Analysis of Lokshahiri (People’s Poetry) on YouTube 20.Encountering the Digital- Jhumur Folk songs, Memory, Migration and the Digital 21. Infusing Digital Media into Theatre in Contemporary Indian Performances” Afterword. Rethinking Digital Colonialisms: The Limits of Postcolonial Digital Humanities