Transcultural Humanities in South Asia: Critical Essays on Literature and Culture

ISBN-13: 9780367483715 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 494 str.

Nosheen Yousaf; Waseem Anwar

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This broad and comprehensive book also speaks volumes to the value of the humanities, and the significance of South Asian contexts. It will be of particular interest to those working on postcolonial studies, literary studies, Asian Studies and more.

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Foreword Amritjit Singh  Introduction: Transcultural Humanities in South Asia: Constrictions and Connections Waseem Anwar  Part I. Theorising the Transcultural Humanities: Reimagined Possibilities  1. Humanities and Hope Bill Ashcroft  2. Reimagining the Humanities in a Transcultural, Post-Truth World Waqas Khwaja  3. Post-cultural Crises and the Pandemic: What Humanities? Pradyumna S. Chauhan  4. Beyond Pillars and ‘Posts’: Transcultural Humanities in South Asian Literary Studies Feroza Jussawalla  5. The Role of Transcultural Humanities in Times of Crisis: Nadeem Aslam, Karan Mahajan, and Kashmir John C. Hawley  Part II. Borderless Zones: Tracing a Poetics for Transcultural Humanities  6. Is there Life in this Author? The Living Author and the Business and Importance of the Humanities in South Asia Mark J. Boone  7. Sri Lankan Literature and Territoriality: The Politics of Literary Criticism Minoli Salgado  8. [Trans]Cultural Contact Zones – A Comparative Study of Archetypes: Persian Dastan and Greek Epic Traditions Areeba Tayyab and Kashif Jamshaid  9. Zones of Every Being: Transcultural Decolonisation and Border Thinking in Contemporary India Sayan Dey  10. Languaging Gesture/ Gesturing Language: A Case for Rekhti Poetry Anisur Rahman  Part III. Postcolonial Inquisition and Transcultural Intersections: Politics, Place, Identity, Migration  11. Migration and the Lesson of Irony - On the Political Meaning of Humanities: Saadat Hasan Manto and Sǿren Kierkegaard Christine Habbard  12. From Post- to Para-Colonialism: (Trans) National and Cultural Intersections in Post-1988 Pakistani Anglophone Fiction Ali Usman Saleem  13. Bhutan, Western Arunachal Pradesh and Modern State-Making: Literary-[Trans]Cultural Mappings in Moi Akou Janam Lom and The Circle of Karma Rajashree Bargohain and Tshering Thinley  14. Migrant Voices: An Inquisition of the ‘Other’ Literature in Bangladesh Rukhsana R. Chowdhury  15. Beyond Identity Politics: Transcultural and Multiple Allegiances in Parajuly’s Land Where I Flee Binod Paudyal  Part IV. Homing Transculturation: Nation, Partition, Periphery  16. Borders, Belonging and Diasporic Aesthetics: Tracing a Transcultural Conceptualisation of Home in South Asian Partition Fiction Nudrat Kamal  17. The Nation and its Peripheries: Borderland Narratives and Theories of Liminality Swatee Sinha and Anjali Gera Roy  18. The Long Partition: Reading Some Partition Writers Transculturally Tasneem Shahnaaz  19. Reconstructing Partition Memories in the New Millennium Muneeza Shamsie  20. Transcultural Location of Home in the Fiction of Gao Xingjian Farida Chishti  Part V. Expressions of Transculturality: Theatre, Art, Communication, Curricula  21. Memory in Theatre, Theatre in Memory: Experiencing the ‘Self/Selves’ in Swadeshi Theatre (1905-1911) Mimasha Pandit  22. Locating the Transcultural Humanities in South Asian Art: Frescoes in the Lahore Fort Seh-Dara Kanwal Khalid  23. Responses Towards 9/11: Caricatures and Pashto Poetry from Pakistan Nukhbah Taj Langah and Kamal ud Din  24. 70 Years of Freedom of Speech and Expression in Pakistan: An Intracultural Analysis of Press/ Media in Time and Social Processes Altaf Ullah Khan  25. Learning to be ‘Glocal’: Reflections on Transgressive Theories and Transcultural Flows in Pakistani ELT Classroom and Curriculum Shirin Zubair  Part VI. Transcultural Transformations: Ethics, Ideology, Dilemma  26. Aging, Literature and the Humanities: Transcultural Perspectives on Literary Gerontology in South Asia Saurav Kumar and Banibrata Mahanta  27. A Hindu in Pakistan (2011) and A Mad Man’s Diary (2014): Distantiation, Cultural Transformation and Redefinition of Pakistani Minorities Wajiha Raza Rizvi  28. Ethics and Empathy in Sri Lankan Representations of Refugees Maryse Jayasuriya  29. Dark Moon, Bright Crescent: Tagore in China Cynthia Leenerts  30. Transcultural Dilemma in The Good Muslim: An Analysis of Bangladesh through the Competing Visions of Maya and Sohail Asif Iqbal  Part VII. Transcultural Solidarities: Gender and Sexuality  31. Envisioning the Role of South Asian Gender and Sexuality Studies in the Transcultural Humanities Kavita Daiya and Sreyoshi Sarkar  32. The Outsourcing of Pregnancy: Transnational Surrogacy in Contemporary South Asian Literature Jana Fedtke  33. Socioreligious Dichotomies and Indian Re-feminism: A Transcultural Construct of Goddesses and Women in Sidhwa’s and Mehta’s Water Syrrina Ahsan Ali Haque  34. Memoirs, Muslim Women and Transcultural Symbolic Solidarities Naila Sahar  35. Borders, Women and South Asian Transculturality Nosheen Yousaf  Afterword: Transculturalism, the Way Forward… Fawzia Afzal-Khan