From canon to Covid : transforming English literary studies in India : essays in honour of G.J.V. Prasad /: transforming English literary studies in India : essays in honour of G.J.V. Prasad. (2023)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Angelie Multani, Swati Pal, Nandini Saha, Albeena Shakil, Arjun Ghosh.
• Editors: Multani, Angelie; Pal, Swati; Saha, Nandini; Shakil, Albeena; Ghosh, Arjun
• Other Names: Prasad, G. J. V honouree.
• Contents: Foreword by Suman Gupta Introduction SUB-THEME I: LITERARY STUDIES IN INDIA 1 Rethinking and Resituating Histories of Indian Literature(s) M. Asaduddin 2 Coronavirus Spacesuits: Or, Hard Times as Launching Pads for Literary Travel Rukmini Bhaya Nair 3 The Pandemic and the Postcolonial Meena T. Pillai 4 From ‘Commonwealth’ to ‘Global South’: Engaging with African Literature in Indian Literary Studies Mala Pandurang SUB-THEME II: DRAMA 5 The State of the Stage: An Interview with Mahesh Dattani Angelie Multani 6 Performing the Dalit: A Reading of Dalit Plays B. Mangalam 7 Interpreting Euripides’s Medea in the Contemporary Indian Context Anuradha Marwah SUB-THEME III: POETRY 8 Poetry, Plague and Locusts: About Writing Sonnets on the Black Death Keki N. Daruwalla 9 Translation and Variation: Literary Studies, Reading Practices, and the Vernacular Udaya Kumar 10 Of Dreamtime and Dream-tracks: Revisiting Australian Indigenous Identity Construction with Reference to Select Poems by Oodgeroo Noonuccal and Kevin Gilbert Santosh K. Sareen SUB-THEME IV: TRANSLATION AND TRANSCREATION 11 An Equal Music C.S. Lakshmi 12 Translation, Interpretation, and Transcreation: Texts and Contexts in the Indian Scenario Somdatta Mandal 13 Translating South Asia: Women and Radical Textuality Radha Chakravarty SUB-THEME V: FICTION, LANGUAGE, AND CONTEXT 14 Are the Ghosts in Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw Real? Tabish Khair 15 Marginalization and Dispossession in the Kashmiri Novel: A Look at Mirza Waheed’s The Collaborator Meenakshi Bharat 16 Calling Local/Talking Global: The Cosmopolitics of the Call-Centre Industry Jisha Menon 17 An Emerging Literary Tradition: An Overview of Writings in English from the Northeast K.B. Veio Pou and Achingliu Kamei
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: New Delhi : Routledge India
• Publication Date: 2023
• Extent: 1 online resource (254 pages), illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 820.71054; English literature -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- India -- History; English literature -- History and criticism
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000892208; 9781000892161
• Related ISBNs: 9780367768348; 9781032508436
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