Literary cultures and digital humanities in India / edited by Nishat Zaidi and A. Sean Pue.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Zaidi, Nishat, editor.

Pue, A. Sean, 1975- editor.

Taylor & Francis eBooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indic literature--Research--Data processing.

Indic literature.

Literature and technology--India.

Literature and technology.

Digital humanities.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 395 pages) : color illustrations

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2023.

Biography/History:

Nishat Zaidiis Professor of English at Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. As ascholar, critic, and translator, she isa recipient of several prestigious grants and has conducted collaborative research with the Centre for Indian Studies in Africa, University of Witwatersrand, SA; South Asia Institute, Heidelberg University, Germany; and Michigan State University, USA. Her publications include Day and Dastan translated by Nishat Zaidi and Alok Bhalla (2018); Purdah and Polygamy: Life in an Indian Muslim Household, by Iqbalunnisa Hussain, edited and introduced by Nishat Zaidi (2018); Between Worlds: The Travels of Yusuf Khan Kambalposh translated andedited by Mushirul Hasan and Nishat Zaidi (2014) among others. Her forthcoming work is Karbala: A Historical Play (translation of Premchand's play Karbala with a critical introduction and notes) to be published in 2022. A. Sean Pue is Associate Professor of Hindi Language and South Asian Literature and Culture at Michigan State University, USA. He is the author ofI Too Have Some Dreams: N. M. Rashed and Modernism in Urdu Poetry(2014). An Andrew W. Mellon New Directions Fellowship allowed Pue to study linguistics and computer/data science and to develop "Publics of Sound: Data Driven Analysis of the of Poetic Innovation in South Asia," which includes an extensive sound archive of South Asian poetry and analytical and methodological writings. Pue holds a Ph.D. in Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures and Comparative Literature and Society from Columbia University.

Contents:

Digital cultures in India : digitality and its discontents / Maya Dodd

Digital literary studies in uncertain times / Dhanashree Thorat

Reading world literature at a distance : challenges and opportunities / Michael Falk

Digital archives for Indian literatures and cultures : challenges and prospects / Parthasarathi Bhowmik

Bichitra : the Online Tagore Varorium Project / Spandana Bhowmik

Presenting Purple Pencil Project as a case study of digital humanities project in practice in the field of Indian literatures / Prakruti Maniar

Archiving "community's voices" in Karbi Anglong : collective memory and digital apprehensions / Debashree Dattaray

Rekhta to Rekhta.org : digital remapping of Urdu literary culture and public sphere / Nishat Zaidi and Aqib Sabir

Digitizing Derozio : mapping the local and the global contexts of an Anglo-Indian poet / Amardeep Singh

The internet in the context of Indian women's poetry in English / Shruti Sareen

Putting the local in the global : Indian graphic novels the new vogue of the Indian writing in English / Aibhi Biswas

Quantitative stepwise analysis of the impact of technology in Indian English novels 1947-2001 / Shanmugapriya T, Nirmala Menon and Deborah Sutton

Un-scripting the narrative : the special case of Hindi-Urdu audiobook / Abiral Kumar

Voices of the 'missing' : subaltern poetics in Indian videogames / Souvik Mukherjee

Narrative and play : some reflections on videogames based on Bollywood / Nishat Haider

Hitman 2 and its spectre of Mumbai : a city lost in translation / Samya Brata Roy

Electronic literature in India : where is it does it even exist?" / Nirmala Menon and Justy Joseph

The cult of YouTube Mushairas in India's small towns / Yousuf Saeed

Performative politics in digital spaces : an analysis of Lokshahiri (people's poetry) on YouTube / Avanti Chhatre

Encountering the digital : Jhumur folk songs, memory, migration and the digital / Devika Shekhawat

Infusing digital media into theatre in contemporary indian performances / Tanya Jaluthria, Independent Scholar

Afterword. Rethinking digital colonialisms : the limits of postcolonial digital humanities / Roopika Risam.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 11, 2023).

Other Format:

Print version: Literary cultures and digital humanities in India

ISBN:

9781003354246

1003354246

9781000814705

100081470X

9781000814668

1000814661

Publisher Number:

99992523484

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