Indian Literature and the World: Multilingualism, Translation, and the Public SphereRossella 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 cover political activism and the North-East Tribal novel; the role of work in the contemporary Indian fictional imaginary; history as felt and reconceived by the acclaimed Hindi author Krishna Sobti; Bombay fictions; the Dalit autobiography in translation and its problematic international success; development, ecocriticism and activist literature; casteism and access to literacy in the South; and gender and diaspora as dominant themes in writing from and about the subcontinent. Troubling Eurocentric genre distinctions and the split between citizen and subject, the collection approaches Indian literature from the perspective of its constant interactions between private and public narratives, thereby proposing a method of reading Indian texts that goes beyond their habitual postcolonial identifications as “national allegories”. |
Other editions - View all
Indian Literature and the World: Multilingualism, Translation, and the ... Rossella Ciocca,Neelam Srivastava No preview available - 2017 |
Common terms and phrases
Adivasi Alag alag Alag alag vaitarani Arun Kolatkar Ashok authors Awadh Bama Bengali bhashas bilingual Bombay Brand British Asian canon caste characters Ciocca collective colonial contemporary context critical cultural Dalit Dalit writing Das’s Delhi Devi Devi’s diaspora essay experience fiction gender genre global Hindi Hindu Hyder identity Indian languages Indian literature Indian novel indigenous Kamala Kamala Das Kamble Kapur Karukku Krishna Sobti Lakshmi Holmström linguistic literary lives London Malayalam Marathi Midnight’s Children modern Mukherjee multilingual Mumbai Muslim narrative narrator nationalist north-east oppression Orsini Partition perspective poetry political postcolonial Postcolonial Literature Premchand protagonist public sphere reader readership reading role Routledge Roy’s rural Rushdie Rushdie’s sense Shab gazida Shagun short stories Siân social South Asian Srivastava struggle subaltern autobiography Subaltern Studies Suitable Boy Syal’s Tamil Tania texts tion traditional University Press urban Urdu village Vipin women world literature zamindari zeitgeist