Literary cultures in history : reconstructions from South Asia / editor, Sheldon Pollock.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pollock, Sheldon I.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indic literature--History and criticism.

Indic literature.

Literature and society--South Asia--History.

Literature and society.

Politics and literature--South Asia--History.

Politics and literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1104 pages) : illustrations, maps

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, 2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A grand synthesis of unprecedented scope, Literary Cultures in History is the first comprehensive history of the rich literary traditions of South Asia. Together these traditions are unmatched in their combination of antiquity, continuity, and multicultural complexity, and are a unique resource for understanding the development of language and imagination over time. In this unparalleled volume, an international team of renowned scholars considers fifteen South Asian literary traditions-including Hindi, Indian-English, Persian, Sanskrit, Tibetan, and Urdu-in their full historical and cultural variety.The volume is united by a twofold theoretical aim: to understand South Asia by looking at it through the lens of its literary cultures and to rethink the practice of literary history by incorporating non-Western categories and processes. The questions these seventeen essays ask are accordingly broad, ranging from the character of cosmopolitan and vernacular traditions to the impact of colonialism and independence, indigenous literary and aesthetic theory, and modes of performance. A sophisticated assimilation of perspectives from experts in anthropology, political science, history, literary studies, and religion, the book makes a landmark contribution to historical cultural studies and to literary theory in addition to the new perspectives it offers on what literature has meant in South Asia.(Available in South Asia from Oxford University Press--India)

Contents:

pt. 1. Globalizing literary cultures

pt. 2. Literature in southern locales

pt. 3. The centrality of borderlands

pt. 4. Buddhist cultures and South Asian literatures

pt. 5. The twinned histories of Urdu and Hindi.

Notes:

"A Philip E. Lilienthal book."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9786612356759

9780520926738

0520926730

9781282356757

1282356755

9781597347181

1597347183

OCLC:

475933668