Frontiers of South Asian Culture

Nation, Trans-Nation and Beyond
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-032-23169-3
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 270 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 549 g

Reihe: Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures

This book is the first of its kind to significantly concentrate on trans-nation, transnationalism and its dialogue with various nationalisms in South Asia. Taking the absence of discussion on transnationalism in South Asia as a conspicuous lacuna as well as a point of intervention, this book pushes the boundaries of scholarship further by organizing a dialogue between the nation-state and many nationalisms and the emergent method of transnationalism. It opens itself up for many cross-border movements, formulating the trans-South Asian discursive exchange necessitated by contemporary, theoretical upheavals. It looks at such exchanges through the prisms of literature and cinema and traces the many modes of engagement that exist between some of the globally dominant literary and cinematic forms, trying to locate these engagements and negotiations across three geopolitical formations and locations of culture, namely region, nation and trans-nation.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Patra, Parichay

Bhattacharya, Amitendu

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Indische & Dravidische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Contributors

Introduction

- Parichay Patra and Amitendu Bhattacharya

Part I: Nation and Its Porous Frontiers

Chapter 1: The Politics of Spectatorship: Textual Traditions, Cinematograph and the Moral Dilemma of the Natives of Assam in British India (1900–1935)

-Kaushik Thakur Bhuyan

Chapter 2: Then and Now: Nation and Transnational Identity in Jyoti Prasad Agarwala’s Joymati (1935) and Jahnu Barua’s Ajeyo (2014)

- Asha Kuthari Chaudhuri

Chapter 3 Humour and Cinema: A Study of Language Politics in Assam

-Simona Sarma and Sukrity Gogoi

Chapter 4: The Transnational City of Pondicherry: Elite Indian Identity Crisis and Cortes’ Receding French Image

-Andrea Rodrigues

Chapter 5: Cartography of Goa: Analysis of the Tangible Loci of Culture in the Sketches of Mario Miranda

- Amrita Biswas

Part II: Nation, Cultural Histories, Trans-Nation: The Cinematic Imagi-Nation

Chapter 6: That Which Flows

- Moinak Biswas

Chapter 7: Ray at Large: Cinema In and Out of Literature in Region, Nation, Transnation

- Kaushik Bhaumik

Chapter 8: Beckett and Avikunthak: Lineages of the Avant-Garde

-Brinda Bose

Chapter 9: The Partitioning of Bengal, 1971 and National Identity Formation in Tanvir Mokammel’s Films

- Fakrul Alam

Part III: Nation, Cultural Histories, Trans-Nation: The Literary Imagi-Nation

Chapter 10: Region, Nation, Border: Histories of Land and Water

- Supriya Chaudhuri

Chapter 11: Travelling On: Bengali and English Literatures of Transnational Worlding

- Arka Chattopadhyay

Chapter 12: Capitalist World-Ecology, Food Crisis, and Embodied Aesthetics in in Kamala Markandaya’s Nectar in a Sieve

- Sourit Bhattacharya

Chapter 13: Modernity on Wheels: Reading Trains as Sites of Encounter and Disaster

- Anuparna Mukherjee

Chapter 14: "The lights cut out quickly": Nation, Nationalism and City-lit during 1980–1990s

- Dibyakusum Ray

Part IV: South Asian Transactions: Between Subcontinental Flow and Transnational Frictions

Chapter 15: Tagorean Cosmopolitanism and Ceylonic Indigenization Movement

- Saman M. Kariyakarawane and S. S. A. Senevirathne

Chapter 16: From Villain to Superhero: Reimaginings of Ravana in Twentieth- and Twenty-First Century Sri Lanka

- Kanchuka Dharmasiri

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Parichay Patra is Assistant Professor, School of Liberal Arts, Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur, India.

Amitendu Bhattacharya is Assistant Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), Pilani – K.K. Birla Goa Campus, India.