Beyond English: World Literature and India Contributor(s): Tiwari, Bhavya (Author) |
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ISBN: 1501334646 ISBN-13: 9781501334641 Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC OUR PRICE: $128.70 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2021 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Asian - Indic - Literary Criticism | Comparative Literature - Literary Criticism | Modern - 20th Century |
Dewey: 809.895 |
LCCN: 2021023758 |
Physical Information: 0.5" H x 6" W x 9" (0.99 lbs) 208 pages |
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Publisher Description: Beyond English: World Literature and India radically alters the debates on world literature that hinge on the model of circulation and global capital by deeply engaging with the idea of the world and world-making in South Asia. Tiwari argues that Indic words for world (vishva, jagat, sansar) offer a nuanced understanding of world literature that is antithetical to a commodified and standardized monolingual globe. She develops a comparative study of the concept of "world literature" (vishva sahitya) in Rabindranath Tagore's works, the desire for a new world in the lyrics of the Hindi shadowism (chhayavaad) poets, and world-making in Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai's Chemmeen (1956) and Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things (1997). |