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Author : Rupert Snell,Ian Raeside
Publisher : Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Bengali literature
ISBN : 3447040580
Author : Prof. Yigal Bronner,Charles Hallisey
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-25
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780520384484
A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. What are the pleasures of reading translations of South Asian literature, and what does it take to enjoy a translated text? This volume provides opportunities to explore such questions by bringing together a whole set of new translations by David Shulman, noted scholar of South Asia. The translated selections come from a variety of Indian languages, genres, and periods, from the classical to the contemporary. The translations are accompanied by short essays written to help readers engage and enjoy them. Some of these essays provide background to enhance reading of the translation, whereas others model how to expand appreciation in comparative and broader ways. Together, the translations and the accompanying essays form an essential guide for people interested in literature and art from South Asia.
Author : Malashri Lal,Sukrita Paul Kumar
Publisher : Pearson Education India
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 8131706370
Contributed articles.
Author : Paul Brians
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2003-11-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780313320118
Introduces a significant Indian, Pakistani, or Sri Lankan writers, includes: brief biographical backgrounds, an overview of the author's major works, and the explication of a single work. Critical perspectives are offered, as well as background information enabling readers to view each work as a window to South Asian culture.
Author : Diana Dimitrova
Publisher : Springer
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2010-02-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230105522
This innovative, interdisciplinary collection of essays by scholars based in Europe and the United States offers stimulating approaches to the role played by religion in present-day South Asia.
Author : Surinder Singh,I. D. Gaur
Publisher : Pearson Education India
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 813171358X
Papers presented at a seminar held at Chandigarh during 1-2 February 2005.
Author : Anshu Malhotra,Anne Murphy
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2023-04-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781000867008
This volume brings together works by established and emerging scholars to consider the work and impact of Bhai Vir Singh. Bhai Vir Singh (1872-1957) was a major force in the shaping of modern Sikh and Punjabi culture, language, and politics in the undivided colonial Punjab, prior to the Partition of the province in 1947, and in the post-colonial state of India. The chapters in this book explore how he both reflected and shaped his time and context and address some of the ongoing legacy of his work in the lives of contemporary Sikhs. The contributors analyze the varied genres, literary, and historical that were adopted and adapted by Bhai Vir Singh to foreground and enhance Sikh religiosity and identity. These include his novels, didactic pamphlets, journalistic writing, prefatory and exegetical work on spiritual and secular historical documents, and his poems and lyrics, among others. This book will be of particular interest to those working in Sikh studies, South Asian studies, and post-colonial studies.
Author : Bidhu Chand Murmu, Somjeeta Pandey
Publisher : Ukiyoto Publishing
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2022-04-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789354904509
As a school of criticism, the central argument in Postcolonial studies revolves around dismantling the dominant narrative of colonial or imperial history. A colonization process not only captures the native people and culture but their lands too. Proper reading of postcolonial theory would be by understanding the epistemology of colonized environment or vice-versa. Even after decolonization the ideology of imperialism is persistent in native memory and thought. An embeddedness in native psyche not only nurtures imperialism but manifests them with the footprints of colonial masters. In postcolonial countries the discourse of social and economic justice is deeply rooted in ecology. As a consequence, environmental activists from postcolonial nations tend to see any modern policy as a disguised form of neocolonialism or imperial dominance, globalization and modernization. Since the shocks of imperialism and globalization are most strongly felt in the third world countries, most of them being former colonies, this edited volume intends to explore texts by South Asian writers examining how these writers and their characters cope with the destruction of the environment. This edited volume plans to seek out the writings of epistemological understanding of our environment. Moreover, the volume would also see a critical entanglement of race, class, gender, culture, modernization, globalization, nation and trans-nation etc. Furthermore, this book will attempt to show how different genres of literature ranging from fiction to non-fiction can bring out inimitable insights into varied understanding of postcolonial and ecocritical studies.
Author : Diana Dimitrova,Tatiana Oranskaia
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2018-06-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351123600
The issue of divinizing in South Asian traditions has not been examined before as a process involving various methods to affect the socio-cultural cognition of the community. It is therefore essential to consider the context of "divinizing" and to analyse what groups, institutions or individuals define the discourse, what are the ideological positions that they represent, and who or what is being divinized. This book deals with the issue of divinizing in South Asian traditions. It aims at studying cultural questions related to the representations and the mythologizing of the divine. It also explores the human relations to the "divine other." It studies the interpretations of the divine in religious texts and the embodiment of the "divine other" in ritual practices. The focus is on studying the phenomenon of divinizing in its religious, cultural, and ideological implications. The book comprises eight chapters that explore the question of divinizing from the 2nd century CE up to present-day in North and South India. The chapters discuss the issue both from insider and outsider perspectives, within the framework of textual study as well as ideological and anthropological analysis. All articles explore various aspects of the cultural phenomenon of being in relation to the divine other, of the process of interpreting and embodying the divine, and of the representation of the divinizing process, as revealed in the literatures and cultures of South Asia. Applying theoretical models of religious and cultural studies to discuss texts written in South Asian languages and engage in critical dialogue with current scholarship, this book is an indispensable study of literary, religious and cultural production in South Asia. It will be of interest to academics in the fields of South Asian studies, Asian Studies, religious and cultural studies as well as comparative religion.
Author : Bidhu Chand Murmu,Somjeeta Pandey
Publisher : Isekai Labs Llp - Etail
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2022-04-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9357142339
As a school of criticism, the central argument in Postcolonial studies revolves around dismantling the dominant narrative of colonial or imperial history. A colonization process not only captures the native people and culture but their lands too. Proper reading of postcolonial theory would be by understanding the epistemology of colonized environment or vice-versa. Even after decolonization the ideology of imperialism is persistent in native memory and thought. An embeddedness in native psyche not only nurtures imperialism but manifests them with the footprints of colonial masters. In postcolonial countries the discourse of social and economic justice is deeply rooted in ecology. As a consequence, environmental activists from postcolonial nations tend to see any modern policy as a disguised form of neocolonialism or imperial dominance, globalization and modernization. Since the shocks of imperialism and globalization are most strongly felt in the third world countries, most of them being former colonies, this edited volume intends to explore texts by South Asian writers examining how these writers and their characters cope with the destruction of the environment. This edited volume plans to seek out the writings of epistemological understanding of our environment. Moreover, the volume would also see a critical entanglement of race, class, gender, culture, modernization, globalization, nation and trans-nation etc. Furthermore, this book will attempt to show how different genres of literature ranging from fiction to non-fiction can bring out inimitable insights into varied understanding of postcolonial and ecocritical studies.
Author : Phiroze Vasunia
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199203239
Offering a unique cross-cultural study, this book provides a detailed account of the relationship between classical antiquity and the British colonial presence in India. Vasunia shows how classical culture pervaded the minds of the British colonizers, and highlights the many Indian receptions of Greco-Roman antiquity.
Author : Valerie Ritter
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2011-09-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781438435671
Kama's Flowers documents the transformation of Hindi poetry during the crucial period of 1885-1925. As Hindi was becoming a national language and Indian nationalism was emerging, Hindi authors articulated a North Indian version of modernity by reenvisioning nature. While their writing has previously been seen as an imitation of European Romanticism, Valerie Ritter shows its unique and particular function in North India. Description of the natural world recalled traditional poetics, particularly erotic and devotional poetics, but was now used to address sociopolitical concerns, as authors created literature to advocate for a "national character" and to address a growing audience of female readers. Examining Hindi classics, translations from English poetry, literary criticism, and little-known popular works, Ritter combines translations with fresh literary analysis to show the pivotal role of nature in how modernity was understood. Bringing a new body of literature to English-language readers, Kama's Flowers also reveals the origins of an influential visual culture that resonates today in Bollywood cinema.
Author : C. Patrick Heidkamp,Troy Paddock,Christine Petto
Publisher : Zeta Books
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9786068266640
Author : Pashaura Singh,Louis E. Fenech
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780191004117
The Oxford Handbook of Sikh Studies innovatively combines the ways in which scholars from fields as diverse as philosophy, psychology, religious studies, literary studies, history, sociology, anthropology, political science, and economics have integrated the study of Sikhism within a wide range of critical and postcolonial perspectives on the nature of religion, violence, gender, ethno-nationalism, and revisionist historiography. A number of essays within this collection also provide a more practical dimension, written by artists and practitioners of the tradition. The Handbook is divided into eight thematic sections that explore different 'expressions' of Sikhism. Historical, literary, ideological, institutional, and artistic expressions are considered in turn, followed by discussion of Sikhs in the Diaspora, and of caste and gender in the Panth. Each section begins with an essay by a prominent scholar in the field, providing an overview of the topic. Further essays provide detail and further treat the fluid, multivocal nature of both the Sikh past and the present. The Handbook concludes with a section considering future directions in Sikh Studies.
Author : Diana Dimitrova
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2022-10-15
Category : Group identity in literature
ISBN : 9780192869067
This book deals with the interface between identity, culture and literature. It aims at studying questions of cultural identity and gender in Hindi plays of the 19th- and 20th- centuries and the interplay of poetics and politics, as revealed in the work of several influential playwrights. The book explores questions related to the ways in which seven representative playwrights imagine India and its identity and the ways, in which this concept is revealed in the "narratives of the nation", its postcolonial contentions and the politics of identity, as revealed in the production of various cultural discourses. The chapters explore various aspects of the ongoing process of constructing and narrating culture, gender, the nation and identity. There has been no monograph on the questions of cultural identity in Hindi drama. This is a pioneering project and a desideratum in the field of Hindi literature, South Asian Studies, and broadly, in the study of theatre of India and of South Asian cultures and literatures.