Tagore and Yeats : : a postcolonial re-envisioning / / Amrita Ghosh and Elizabeth Brewer Redwine.
The Yeats -Tagore friendship and the eventual curious fallout between the two remain a mystery; the focus of this volume is a postcolonial reading of the two writers’ friendship, the critical reception of Tagore in 1912 England, and Tagore’s erasure from Western literary discourse. The essays in thi...
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| Superior document: | Cross/Cultures ; 217 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden : : Brill,, [2022] ©2022 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Cross/Cultures ;
217. Literature and Cultural Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2022. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (238 pages) |
| Notes: | This is a comparative exploration of two iconic Nobel Prize winning writers, W.B. Yeats and Rabindranath Tagore, focusing on the theme of postcolonial translation, politics of friendship, decolonializing art and Irish-Indian nationalism through poetry and literature. |
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction Tagore, Yeats, A Postcolonial Re-envisioning / Amrita Ghosh and Elizabeth Brewer Redwine
- part 1
- Tagore, Yeats, Translation and Appropriation
- 1 (Un)Translatable Authorship Positioning Yeats’ “Preface” and the Poetry of Tagore / Amardeep Singh
- 2 Translation at the Abbey Theatre in 1913 The World Premier of Rabindranath Tagore’s the Post Office / Barry Sheils
- part 2
- Representation, Subalternity, and Transnational Collaborations
- 3 Hybrid Performances Tagore, Yeats, Politics and the Practice of Cosmopolitanism / Louise Blakeney Williams
- 4 Tagore’s China, Yeats’ Orient
- Gregory B. Lee
- 5 Tagore, Yeats and the Poetics of Subalternity / Sirshendu Majumdar
- part 3
- Performativity, Art: Modernism and Postcolonial
- 6 Translating from the Peripheries Rabindranath Tagore, William Butler Yeats, Automatism and Late-stage Aesthetics / Victor Vargas
- 7 Meeting the British Yeats, Tagore, and Self Fashioning
- Elizabeth Brewer Redwine
- 8 Tagore’s Radical Art and Yeats’ Intermedial Dance-Theatre Reevaluating Eurocentric Modernism / Amrita Ghosh
- Afterword Tagore and Yeats: A Postcolonial Re-envisioning / Joseph Lennon
- Index.