Indian Literature and the World : Multilingualism, Translation, and the Public Sphere /

Indian Literature and the World : Multilingualism, Translation, and the Public Sphere / / edited by Rossella Ciocca, Neelam Srivastava.

This book is about the most vibrant yet under-studied aspects of Indian writing today. It examines multilingualism, current debates on postcolonial versus world literature, the impact of translation on an “Indian” literary canon, and Indian authors’ engagement with the public sphere. The essays cove...

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Ciocca, Rossella.
Srivastava, Neelam.
Place / Publishing House:London : : Palgrave Macmillan UK :, Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,, 2017.
Year of Publication:2017
Edition:1st ed. 2017.
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (VI, 288 p. 4 illus.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction: Indian Literature and the World; Rossella Ciocca and Neelam Srivastava
  • SECTION ONE: COMPARING MULTILINGUAL PERSPECTIVES
  • 2. Pre-nation and Post-colony: 1947 in Qurratulain Hyder’s My Temples, Too and Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children; Rajeswari Sunder Rajan
  • 3. ‘Reading Together: Hindi, Urdu, and English Village Novels’; Francesca Orsini
  • 4. ‘Choosing a Tongue, Choosing a Form: Kamala Das’s Bilingual Algorithms; Udaya Kumar
  • SECTION TWO: ENLARGING THE WORLD LITERARY CANON: NEW VOICES AND TRANSLATION
  • 5. A Multiple Addressivity: Indian Subaltern Autobiographies and the Role of Translation; Neelam Srivastava
  • 6. The Modern Tamil Novel: Changing Identities and Transformations; Lakshmi Holmström
  • 7. ‘The Voices of Krishna Sobti in the Polyphonic Canon of Indian Literature; Stefania Cavaliere
  • SECTION THREE: GLOBALIZED INDIAN PUBLIC SPHERES
  • 8. Resisting Slow Violence: Writing, Activism and Environmentalism; Alessandra Marino
  • 9. The Novel and the Northeast: Indigenous Narratives in Indian Literatures; Mara Matta
  • 10. From Nation to World: Bombay Fictions and the Urban Public Sphere; Rossella Ciocca
  • 11. The Individual and the Collective in Contemporary India: Manju Kapur’s Home and Custody; Maryam Mirza
  • 12. “Home is a place you’ve never been to”: A Woman’s Place in the Indian Diasporic Novel; Clelia Clini
  • Index.-.

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