From Canon to Covid: Transforming English Literary Studies in India. Essays in Honour of GJV Prasad
Editat de Angelie Multani, Swati Pal, Nandini Saha, Albeena Shakil, Arjun Ghoshen Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 aug 2023
This timely book, in honour of Professor GJV Prasad, will be of interest to scholars and researchers of English Studies, cultural studies, literature, comparative literature, translation studies, postcolonial studies, and critical theory.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781032508436
ISBN-10: 1032508434
Pagini: 278
Ilustrații: 6 Line drawings, black and white; 6 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.44 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge India
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1032508434
Pagini: 278
Ilustrații: 6 Line drawings, black and white; 6 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.44 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge India
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
Public țintă
PostgraduateRecenzii
"I celebrate this collection of incisive and animated essays by some of the sharpest scholars of literary studies in India; but even more, I salute the man who has inspired it.
GJV Prasad—longtime friend and colleague, sharer of laughter and bon mots at so many locations over the years and finally at JNU offices two doors apart—has worn both his erudition and his popularity with a rare, and equal, lightness. It may be said with certainty that an overwhelming number of English teachers and students across India know him slightly or well: and not merely for his translations, his academic writing, his courses and his talks, but for the generosity of his time, humour, advice and affection. All of these—with the exception of his hugely anticipated classes each semester over an eventful forty-one years at Jawaharlal Nehru University, whose Centre for English Studies he grew synonymous with—should remain unaffected by his retirement from teaching.
Yet, the retirement of a stalwart teacher and mentor such as GJV Prasad is a moment of pleasant pause for all the minds he touched and shaped over decades. This volume of essays in honour of him is timely, thoughtful and fitting. It traverses the wide reach of his scholarly interests in the collated work of his friends, students and colleagues; they pay tribute to his place in their intellectual lives through this gesture that will speak the most eloquently to him, as well as to all those who occupy the field of English literary studies in contemporary India. It is a public encomium that carries with it a scent of friendship: there could hardly be a better gift."
Brinda Bose, Jawaharlal Nehru University
"An extraordinary tribute to teacher, translator and creative writer Prof. GJV Prasad, the book From Canon to Covid: Transforming English Literary Studies in India tracks every significant signpost in the evolution of the most ‘aspirational’ subject in the country. From questioning the canon to offering insightful readings of Indian writing, from analysing syllabus change to noting corresponding developments in translation and publishing, from creative writing to theorisations, the essays constitute a comprehensive understanding of literary studies in the context of national dynamics. Scholars of renown, associated with the long and illustrious career of GJV, have come together in a remarkable expression of solidarity to create a book of outstanding quality and significance."
Malashri Lal, Department of English, and former Dean of Colleges, University of Delhi
GJV Prasad—longtime friend and colleague, sharer of laughter and bon mots at so many locations over the years and finally at JNU offices two doors apart—has worn both his erudition and his popularity with a rare, and equal, lightness. It may be said with certainty that an overwhelming number of English teachers and students across India know him slightly or well: and not merely for his translations, his academic writing, his courses and his talks, but for the generosity of his time, humour, advice and affection. All of these—with the exception of his hugely anticipated classes each semester over an eventful forty-one years at Jawaharlal Nehru University, whose Centre for English Studies he grew synonymous with—should remain unaffected by his retirement from teaching.
Yet, the retirement of a stalwart teacher and mentor such as GJV Prasad is a moment of pleasant pause for all the minds he touched and shaped over decades. This volume of essays in honour of him is timely, thoughtful and fitting. It traverses the wide reach of his scholarly interests in the collated work of his friends, students and colleagues; they pay tribute to his place in their intellectual lives through this gesture that will speak the most eloquently to him, as well as to all those who occupy the field of English literary studies in contemporary India. It is a public encomium that carries with it a scent of friendship: there could hardly be a better gift."
Brinda Bose, Jawaharlal Nehru University
"An extraordinary tribute to teacher, translator and creative writer Prof. GJV Prasad, the book From Canon to Covid: Transforming English Literary Studies in India tracks every significant signpost in the evolution of the most ‘aspirational’ subject in the country. From questioning the canon to offering insightful readings of Indian writing, from analysing syllabus change to noting corresponding developments in translation and publishing, from creative writing to theorisations, the essays constitute a comprehensive understanding of literary studies in the context of national dynamics. Scholars of renown, associated with the long and illustrious career of GJV, have come together in a remarkable expression of solidarity to create a book of outstanding quality and significance."
Malashri Lal, Department of English, and former Dean of Colleges, University of Delhi
Cuprins
Foreword
Introduction
SUB-THEME I: LITERARY STUDIES IN INDIA
1 Rethinking and Resituating Histories of Indian Literature(s)
2 Coronavirus Spacesuits: Or, Hard Times as Launching Pads for Literary Travel
3 The Pandemic and the Postcolonial
4 From ‘Commonwealth’ to ‘Global South’: Engaging with African Literature in Indian Literary Studies
SUB-THEME II: DRAMA
5 The State of the Stage: An Interview with Mahesh Dattani
6 Performing the Dalit: A Reading of Dalit Plays
7 Interpreting Euripides’s Medea in the Contemporary Indian Context
SUB-THEME III: POETRY
8 Poetry, Plague and Locusts: About Writing Sonnets on the Black Death
9 Translation and Variation: Literary Studies, Reading Practices, and the Vernacular
10 Of Dreamtime and Dream-tracks: Revisiting Australian Indigenous Identity Construction with Reference to Select Poems by Oodgeroo Noonuccal and Kevin Gilbert
SUB-THEME IV: TRANSLATION AND TRANSCREATION
11 An Equal Music
12 Translation, Interpretation, and Transcreation: Texts and Contexts in the Indian Scenario
13 Translating South Asia: Women and Radical Textuality
SUB-THEME V: FICTION, LANGUAGE, AND CONTEXT
14 Are the Ghosts in Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw Real?
15 Marginalization and Dispossession in the Kashmiri Novel: A Look at Mirza Waheed’s The Collaborator
16 Calling Local/Talking Global: The Cosmopolitics of the Call-Centre Industry
17 An Emerging Literary Tradition: An Overview of Writings in English from the Northeast
Introduction
SUB-THEME I: LITERARY STUDIES IN INDIA
1 Rethinking and Resituating Histories of Indian Literature(s)
2 Coronavirus Spacesuits: Or, Hard Times as Launching Pads for Literary Travel
3 The Pandemic and the Postcolonial
4 From ‘Commonwealth’ to ‘Global South’: Engaging with African Literature in Indian Literary Studies
SUB-THEME II: DRAMA
5 The State of the Stage: An Interview with Mahesh Dattani
6 Performing the Dalit: A Reading of Dalit Plays
7 Interpreting Euripides’s Medea in the Contemporary Indian Context
SUB-THEME III: POETRY
8 Poetry, Plague and Locusts: About Writing Sonnets on the Black Death
9 Translation and Variation: Literary Studies, Reading Practices, and the Vernacular
10 Of Dreamtime and Dream-tracks: Revisiting Australian Indigenous Identity Construction with Reference to Select Poems by Oodgeroo Noonuccal and Kevin Gilbert
SUB-THEME IV: TRANSLATION AND TRANSCREATION
11 An Equal Music
12 Translation, Interpretation, and Transcreation: Texts and Contexts in the Indian Scenario
13 Translating South Asia: Women and Radical Textuality
SUB-THEME V: FICTION, LANGUAGE, AND CONTEXT
14 Are the Ghosts in Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw Real?
15 Marginalization and Dispossession in the Kashmiri Novel: A Look at Mirza Waheed’s The Collaborator
16 Calling Local/Talking Global: The Cosmopolitics of the Call-Centre Industry
17 An Emerging Literary Tradition: An Overview of Writings in English from the Northeast
Notă biografică
Angelie Multani is Professor of Literature in the Department of Humanities & Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi, India.
Swati Pal is the Principal of Janki Devi Memorial College, University of Delhi, India, where she is also Professor in the Department of English.
Nandini Saha is Professor in the Department of English, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India.
Albeena Shakil is Professor of English at the O.P. Jindal Global University, India.
Arjun Ghosh is Professor in the Department of Humanities & Social Sciences, IIT Delhi, India.
Swati Pal is the Principal of Janki Devi Memorial College, University of Delhi, India, where she is also Professor in the Department of English.
Nandini Saha is Professor in the Department of English, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India.
Albeena Shakil is Professor of English at the O.P. Jindal Global University, India.
Arjun Ghosh is Professor in the Department of Humanities & Social Sciences, IIT Delhi, India.
Descriere
This multi-genre collection of essays presents the dramatic transformation of English Studies in India since the early 1990s. It showcases the shift from the study of mainly British literature and language to a more versatile terrain of multilingualism, culture, performance, theory, and the literary global South.