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Cultures of Memory in South Asia

Orality, Literacy and the Problem of Inheritance

D. Venkat Rao (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

336 Seiten

2014 | 2014 ed.
Springer, India, Private Ltd (Verlag)
978-81-322-1697-1 (ISBN)

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Culture of Memory in South Asia reconfigures European representations of India as a paradigmatic extension of a classical reading, which posits the relation between text and context in a determined way. It explores the South Asian cultural response to European “textual” inheritances. The main argument of this work is that the reflective and generative nodes of Indian cultural formations are located in the configurations of memory, the body and idiom (verbal and visual), where the body or the body complex becomes the performative effect and medium of articulated memories. This work advances its arguments by engaging with mnemocultures-cultures of memory that survive and proliferate in speech and gesture. Drawing on Sanskrit and Telugu reflective sources, this work emphasizes the need to engage with cultural memory and the compositional modes of Indian reflective traditions. This important and original work focuses on the ruptured and stigmatised resources of heterogeneous Indiantraditions and calls for critical humanities that move beyond the colonially configured received traditions. Cultures of Memory suggests the possibilities of transcultural critical humanities research and teaching initiatives from the Indian context in today’s academy.

D. Venkat Rao teaches at the English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad. His earlier works include, In Citations: Readings in Area Studies of Culture (1999) and a translation of The Last Brahmin (2007). He writes in English and Telugu in the areas of literary and cultural studies, mnemocultures and comparative thought.

Chapter 1. Introduction: Through the Postcolonial Abyss.- Part I: Signatures of Memory.- Chapter 2. Configurations of Memory and the Work of Difference.- Chapter 3. Futures of the Past: Mnemocultures and the Question of Inheritance.- Part II: Mnemotexts of Reflection.- Chapter 4. Learning in the Double Bind: Mnemotextual Inquiries and Action Knowledge.- Chapter 5. Fables of Identity and Contingencies of Certainty: Disarticulations of the Panchatantra.- Chapter 6. Tanunapat: Kalos, Philos and the Vestiges of Trace.- Part III: Embodiments of Response.- Chapter 7. The Mahabharata Contretemps: Temporality, Finitude and the Modes of Being in the Itihasa.- Chapter 8. Responsive Receptions: The Question of Translation beyond the Accursed Zone.- Chapter 9. Listening to the Text looms of Vemana: Memory, History and the Archives of Betrayal.- Chapter 10. Close Ups: Approaching Critical Humanities.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	15.5.2014
Reihe/Serie	Sophia Studies in Cross-cultural Philosophy of Traditions and Cultures ; 6
Zusatzinfo	XVI, 336 p.
Verlagsort	New Delhi
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Östliche Philosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
Schlagworte	Chitrassutra • Critical humanities • Cultural Memory • Kavyamimansa • Materiality of memory, body and idiom • Mnemocultural symbolization • Mnemoculture • Mnemotexts • Musical thinking • Non-narrative configurations • Orality and Literacy • Performative communications • Postcolonial cultural theory • Received humanities in South Asia • Sanskrit mnemocultural traditions • Sanskrit reflective traditions
ISBN-10	81-322-1697-0 / 8132216970
ISBN-13	978-81-322-1697-1 / 9788132216971
Zustand	Neuware