دانلود کتاب Transcultural Humanities in South Asia: Critical Essays on Literature and Culture

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Cover Half Title Title Copyright Dedication Contents Acknowledgements List of contributors Foreword Introduction: transcultural humanities in South Asia: constrictions and connections Part I Theorising the transcultural humanities: reimagined possibilities 1 Humanities and hope 2 Reimagining the humanities in a transcultural, post-truth world 3 Post-cultural crises and the pandemic: what humanities? 4 Beyond pillars and ‘posts’: transcultural humanities in South Asian literary studies 5 The role of transcultural humanities in times of crisis: Nadeem Aslam, Karan Mahajan and Kashmir Part II Borderless zones: tracing a poetics for transcultural 6 Is there life in this author? the living author and the business and importance of the humanities in South Asia 7 Sri Lankan literature and territoriality: the politics of literary criticism 8 [Trans]cultural contact zones – a comparative study of archetypes: Persian dastan and Greek epic traditions 9 Zones of every being: transcultural decolonisation and border thinking in contemporary India 10 Languaging gesture/gesturing language: a case for rekhti poetry Part III Postcolonial inquisition and transcultural intersections: politics, place, identity, migration 11 Migration and the lesson of irony – on the political meaning of humanities: Saadat Hasan Manto and Søren Kierkegaard 12 From post- to para-colonialism: (trans)national and cultural intersections in post-1988 Pakistani anglophone fiction 13 Bhutan, Western Arunachal Pradesh and modern state-making: literary-[Trans]cultural mappings in Moi Akou Janam Lom and The Circle of Karma 14 Migrant voices: an inquisition of the ‘other’ literature in Bangladesh 15 Beyond identity politics: transcultural and multiple allegiances in Parajuly’s Land Where I Flee Part IV Homing transculturation: nation, Partition, periphery 16 Borders, belonging and diasporic aesthetics: tracing a transcultural conceptualisation of home in South Asian Partition fiction 17 The nation and its peripheries: borderland narratives and theories of liminality 18 The Long Partition: reading some Partition writers transculturally 19 Reconstructing Partition memories in the new millennium 20 Transcultural location of home in the fiction of Gao Xingjian Part V Expressions of transculturality: theatre, art, communication, curricula 21 Memory in theatre, theatre in memory: experiencing the ‘self/selves’ in Swadeshi theatre (1905–1911) 22 Locating the transcultural humanities in South Asian art: frescoes in the Lahore Fort Seh-Dara 23 Responses to 9/11: caricatures and Pashto poetry from Pakistan 24 years of freedom of speech and expression in Pakistan: an intracultural analysis of press/media in time and social processes 25 Learning to be ‘glocal’: reflections on transgressive theories and transcultural flows in a Pakistani ELT classroom and curriculum Part VI Transcultural transformations: ethics, ideology, dilemma 26 Aging, literature and the humanities: transcultural perspectives on literary gerontology in South Asia 27 A Hindu in Pakistan (2011) and A Mad Man’s Diary (2014): distantiation, cultural transformation and redefinition of Pakistani minorities 28 Ethics and empathy in Sri Lankan representations of refugees 29 Dark moon, bright crescent: Tagore in China 30 Transcultural dilemma in Tahmima Anam’s The Good Muslim: an analysis of Bangladesh through the competing visions of Maya and Sohail Part VII Transcultural solidarities: gender and sexuality 31 Envisioning the role of South Asian gender and sexuality studies in the transcultural humanities 32 The outsourcing of pregnancy: transnational surrogacy in contemporary South Asian literature 33 Socioreligious dichotomies and Indian re-feminism: a transcultural construct of goddesses and women in Sidhwa’s and Mehta’s Water 34 Memoirs, Muslim women and transcultural symbolic solidarities 35 Borders, women and South Asian transculturality Afterword: transculturalism, the way forward . . . Index