Classics of Modern South Asian Literature
Author: Rupert Snell
Publisher: Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9783447040587
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Sensitive Reading
Author: Prof. Yigal Bronner
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2022-01-25
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 0520384482
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA 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.
Religion in Literature and Film in South Asia
Author: Diana Dimitrova
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2010-02-15
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 0230105521
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Of Clowns and Gods, Brahmans, and Babus
Author: Christina Oesterheld
Publisher: Manohar Publishers and Distributors
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHumour As A Competence Inherent In All Human Beings Defies Description. Its Variety Of Manifetations, In Contrast, The Countless Faces And Forms Of Humour Have Always Engendered Curiosity. For Centuries They Have Inspired People To Attempt To Pinpoint The Essence Of Humour. The Contributors To This Volume, However, Are Somewhat More Modest In Their Endeavors. Their Topic Is Humour In The Written And Oral Literatures Of South Asia. This Volume Contains A Broad Spectre Of Essays On Humour In Modern And Pre-Modern, In Classical And Folk, And In Written And Oral Literatures From Almost All Corners Of The Subcontinent. The Essays Treat The Subject From A Multitute Of Perspectives And Before The Background Of Different Theories Of Humour. Besides Promising An Enjoyable And Informative Reading, This Volume Is Also Expected To Draw More Attention To An Hitherto Neglected Field In South Asian Studies, And To Stimulate Further Research.
Bhai Vir Singh (1872–1957)
Author: Anshu Malhotra
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2023-04-27
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 1000867005
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.
Drama in Contemporary South Asia
Author: Lothar Lutze
Publisher:
Published: 1984
Total Pages: 92
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKCultural Identity in Hindi Plays
Author: Diana Dimitrova
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2022-10-15
Total Pages: 209
ISBN-13: 019286906X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.
Voices of South Asia
Author: Patrick Peebles
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-01-28
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 131745247X
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Kāma's Flowers
Author: Valerie Ritter
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2011-09-01
Total Pages: 371
ISBN-13: 1438435673
DOWNLOAD EBOOKKama'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.
The Classics and Colonial India
Author: Phiroze Vasunia
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2013-05-16
Total Pages: 413
ISBN-13: 0199203237
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOffering 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.
