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Beyond English : world literature and India / Bhavya Tiwari.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tiwari, Bhavya, author.
- Series:
- Literatures as world literature
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Indic literature--20th century--History and criticism.
- Indic literature.
- Literature and society--India.
- Literature and society.
- India.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Literary criticism.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 197 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, Bloomsbury Publishing Inc, 2022.
- Summary:
- "This book maps modern Indian literature, showing that it is neither the sum total of all its literary and linguistic traditions, nor a one-on-one comparative juxtaposition of single literary texts, but rather a spatial and temporal translation, raising questions of politics, circulation, language, gender, genre, aesthetics, and myths in local and world literatures. Beyond English: World Literature and India investigates five main areas to demonstrate these complex processes: Rabindranath Tagore's work and his Nobel Prize; the production and translation of the lyric poetry of Mahadevi Varma; the reception and linguistic play of the modern Indian novel in the global Anglophone world; the translation of a gendered subaltern in Mahasweta Devi's work; and the theme of frustrated love in cinema and literature in narratives such as "Lihaaf," Chemmeen, and The God of Small Things"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. Why World Literature?
- Vishva Sahitya
- Universalism, Sahitya, and Sahit
- Translation and Vishva Sahitya
- 2. Here Is World Literature
- The World-making of the English Gitanjali
- Tagore's Translations, World-making, and Gitanjali in Prose-poems
- World-making of Gitanjali in Spanish
- 3. The World Is in the Lyrics
- The World in Lyrics
- The World-making of Chhayavaad
- World versus Vishva Sahitya in Hindi
- 4. (Woman) Author and the World
- World-making versus Vishva
- Varma's Sahitya and Vishva
- 5. World in Translation, World in the Original
- Chemmeen's Vishva in India and Beyond
- To Compare, to World
- World-making of Small Things
- India in the Original, India in Translation.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Tiwari, Bhavya. Beyond English
- ISBN:
- 9781501334641
- 1501334646
- OCLC:
- 1256588425
- Publisher Number:
- 99989147890
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