| Description |
1 online resource (279 p.) |
| Contents |
Cover -- Endorsement Page -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Contributors -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Sub-Theme I Literary Studies in India -- Chapter 1 Rethinking and Resituating Histories of Indian Literature(s) -- Chapter 2 Coronavirus Spacesuits: Or, Hard Times as Launching Pads for Literary Travel -- Chapter 3 The Pandemic and the Postcolonial -- Chapter 4 From 'Commonwealth' to 'Global South': Engaging with African Literature in Indian Literary Studies -- Sub-Theme II Drama |
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Chapter 5 The State of the Stage: An Interview with Mahesh Dattani -- Chapter 6 Performing the Dalit: A Reading of Dalit Plays -- Chapter 7 Interpreting Euripides's Medea in the Contemporary Indian Context -- Sub-Theme III Poetry -- Chapter 8 Poetry, Plague and Locusts: About Writing Sonnets on the Black Death -- Chapter 9 Translation and Variation: Literary Studies, Reading Practices, and the Vernacular -- Chapter 10 Of Dreamtime and Dream-tracks: Revisiting Australian Indigenous Identity Construction with Reference to Select Poems by Oodgeroo Noonuccal and Kevin Gilbert |
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Sub-Theme IV Translation and Transcreation -- Chapter 11 An Equal Music -- Chapter 12 Translation, Interpretation, and Transcreation: Texts and Contexts in the Indian Scenario -- Chapter 13 Translating South Asia: Women and Radical Textuality -- Sub-Theme V Fiction, Language, and Context -- Chapter 14 Are the Ghosts in Henry James's The Turn of the Screw Real? -- Chapter 15 Marginalization and Dispossession in the Kashmiri Novel: A Look at Mirza Waheed's The Collaborator -- Chapter 16 Calling Local/Talking Global: The Cosmopolitics of the Call-Centre Industry |
| Summary |
This multi-genre collection of essays presents the dramatic transformation of English Studies in India since the early 1990s. It showcases the shift from the study of mainly British literature and language to a more versatile terrain of multilingualism, culture, performance, theory, and the literary global South |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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Chapter 17 An Emerging Literary Tradition: An Overview of Writings in English from the Northeast |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Pal, Swati
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Saha, Nandini
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Shakil, Albeena
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Ghosh, Arjun
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| ISBN |
9781000892161 |
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1000892166 |
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