Performative Reflections of Indian Traditions: Towards a Liveable Learning

ISBN-13: 9789811623905 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 251 str.

D. Venkat Rao

Spis treści

​Part I Accented Rhythms

1 Formations of the (Im)Possible: A Prolegomenon

2 Anaakhyaana—I

3 Charaka’s Pharmacia

4 Anaakhyaana—II

5 Vyasa’s Paravisions

6 Anaakhyaana—III

7 Bharata’s Performative Teleosis

8 Anaakhyaana–IV

9 Sarngadeva’s Primal Sonances

10 Manu’s Mnemopraxials

11 Anaakhyaana–V

12 (A)Para Poiesis

Part II Dispersed Mnemocsapes

13 Mnemoscapes of Water: The Vaangmaya of Rains and Rivers in Indian Traditions

14 Teleocultural Mediations: In Performing Traditions of the Ramayana

Part III Inventive Iterations

15 Inventions of the Literary and Affirmations of Inheritance: The Enduring Legacies of Viswanatha Satyanarayana

O autorze

D. Venkat Rao teaches at the English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad.  His recent work is Critical Humanities from India: Contexts, Issues, Futures (Routledge, 2018), and his other publications include Cultures of Memory in South Asia (Springer, 2014) and a translation into English of a Telugu intellectual autobiography called The Last Brahmin (2007, 2012 and 2017). His areas of interest include literary and cultural studies, image studies, epic traditions, visual cultures, comparative thought, translation, Indian traditions and mnemocultures.  He has designed several courses interfacing areas of culture, technology and literary and cultural studies.

Blurb

This book focuses on the cohering elements across various texts and traditions of India. It engages with several significant works from the Sanskrit tradition and emphasizes the need to move beyond colonial and postcolonial engagements with the enduring cultural pasts of India. The chapters are grouped in three main parts: accented rhythms, dispersed mnemoscapes and inventive iterations. It addresses questions such as: what enabled cultural communication across very divergent geographical, temporal, locational contexts and among different cultural formations of India over millennia? What is this shareable impulse that pulsates across the domains of dance, sculpture, painting, poetry, dharma, music, medicine, the lore of rivers and the epics?  It explains how modern Indian languages and especially their creative and reflective nodes are unthinkable without the intricately woven textures of these interfaces and their responsive receptions. This book is of interest to philosophers, humanities students, researchers and professors as well as people interested in exploring alternatives to European traditions of thought without an alibi.