The Oxford Handbook of Modern Indian Literatures

Ulka Anjaria, Anjali Nerlekar (Herausgeber)

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2025
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The Oxford Handbook of Modern Indian Literatures refutes the Anglocentrism of much literary criticism of the global South by examining "Indian Literature" as a multilingual, dialogic, and plural space constituted by both continuities and divergences. In forty-three chapters and with a team of scholars who exemplify the method of historically situated and theoretically rigorous literary criticism, this volume shows how the idea of Indian literature is a relational and comparative concept. Through readings of a vast diversity of multilingual literature in a range of genres, the chapters highlight contact zones and interchanges across seemingly sedimented boundaries. The Handbook provides an overview of the current state of modern Indian writing and features a range of texts and approaches from across India's many languages and literary traditions, examining and amplifying recent critical attention to the multilingualism that is at the base of any curation of what could be termed, with qualification, "Indian Literatures." The book ranges from the 19th century to the 21st, with especial focus on the centrality of gender and caste to Indian modernism and new generic formations such as graphic novels, autofiction, and videogames.

Anjali Nerlekar is Associate Professor in the Department of AMESALL at Rutgers University and co-editor of Modernism/modernity. Her publications include Bombay Modern: Arun Kolatkar and Bilingual Literary Culture (2016; Indian edition by Speaking Tiger, 2017), a co-edited special double issue of Journal of Postcolonial Writing ("The Worlds of Bombay Poetry," 2017), and a co-edited special issue of South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies on "Postcolonial Archives" in 2021. Her ongoing project (in collaboration with Dr. Bronwen Bledsoe) is the building of an archive of multilingual post-1960 Bombay poetry at Cornell University Library, "The Bombay Poets Archive." She is also currently working on her second book manuscript which examines the multilingual borders of Marathi literature. Ulka Anjaria is professor of English and director of the Mandel Center for the Humanities at Brandeis University, USA, with research specialties in South Asian literature and film, realism and the global novel. She is the author of Realism in the Twentieth-Century Indian Novel: Colonial Difference and Literary Form (2012), Reading India Now: Contemporary Formations in Literature and Popular Culture (2019), and Understanding Bollywood: The Grammar of Hindi Cinema (2021) and the editor of A History of the Indian Novel in English (2015).

About the Volume Editors
Contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Modernity, Multilingualism, and the Literary Canon
Ulka Anjaria and Anjali Nerlekar

Part I: Approaches to Indian Modernities

1. Literary Multilingualism in the Age of the Vernacular
Francesca Orsini

2. English in India, India in English
Rajeswari Sunder Rajan

3. Concealments and Exposures: Translating Caste in Indian Literature
Rita Kothari

4. The Haunted Present: Contemporary Malayalam Fiction and Kerala's Unaccommodated Pasts
Udaya Kumar

5. Remaking Marathi: Modern Histories of Language and V. L. Bhave's Mahrashtra Saraswat
Prachi Desphande

6. Emergency in Ellipses: Styling Modernity in U. R. Ananthamurthy's Bara
C. S. Bhagya

7. Rhizomatic Entanglements: Nonhuman Representations in Yeshe Dorje Thongchi's "Baah Phulor Gundho"
Amit Baishya

Part II: The Indian Modern and its Legacies

8. Modernist Poetry and Marathi Modernism: Through the Lens of Dilip Chitre's Multimodal Oeuvre
Vinay Dharwadker

9. Mahasweta Devi and Indian Literature from Below
Auritro Majumder

10. Bilingual Premchand and His Legacy
M. Asaduddin

11. Elites, Subalterns, and the Postcolonial Nation: Indian English Novels of the 1980s and 1990s
Pranav Jani

12. William Jones, George Grierson, Verrier Elwin: Positioning the Horizons of Modern Indian Literature
G.N. Devy

13. A New Literature for a Naya Kashmir: Progressivism and Modernism in Modern Kashmiri Literature
Abir Bazaz

14. The Ambivalent Aesthetics of Muhammad Hasan Askari
Zain Mian

15. The Literary Management of Multilingualism in Postcolonial India: The Sahitya Akademi and the Case of Tamil New Poetry
Preetha Mani

Part III: Indian Modern Contact Zones

16. Memoir, Autofiction, and the New Indian Humanities
Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan

17. The Haunted Cane Fields of Queer Indo-Caribbean Poetry and Qoolie Poetics
Rajiv Mohabir

18. Ananda Devi's Laughing Goddesses and the Limitless Possibilities of Transnational Fiction
Srilata Ravi

19. Transnational Tamil Literature, Dialect, and Environment
Rebecca Whittington

20. Bengal from Both Sides: Partition in Amitav Ghosh's The Shadow Lines and Mahmudul Haque's Black Ice
Nasia Anam

21. Indian Gulf Writing
Mohamed Shafeeq Karinkurayil

22. Probable, Improbable, and Catastrophic Realisms in Amitav Ghosh's Fiction
Sangeeta Ray

Part IV: Counternarratives of the Indian Modern

23. Writing and Being Modern: Nation, Caste, Gender, and Women's Fiction
V. Geetha

24. The Rise of a Muslim Voice: Telugu Writing in the Times of Hindu Nationalism
Afsar Mohammad

25. Indian Literary History: Ambedkar and Dalit Literature
K. Satyanarayana

26. Irom Sharmila's Poetry and the Politics of Anthologizing Indian Literature
Soibam Haripriya

27. Representing Caste in Odia Literature
Raj Kumar

28. Toward a Canon of Modern Indian Queer Literature
R. Raj Rao

29. Adivasi Poetry: The Poetics of Indigeneity in Contemporary India
Joya John

30. Green, Red: From Pragati to Jujhar in the Cold War Punjab
Aditya Bahl

Part V: Circulations of the Indian Modern

31. Romance, Aesthetics and Progressivism in Marathi Literary Culture: Narayan Sitaram Phadke and the Modern Marathi Novel
Rahul Sarwate

32. Encasted Formalism: Notes on Reading Caste Scripts in Fiction
Vivek Narayan

33. Urban Space across Genre: The Cities of Gajanan Madhav Muktibodh
Gregory Goulding

34. Pastorals in the City: Space, Tradition and Translation in The Country Without a Post Office
Huzaifa Pandit

35. Ambiguous Journeys and Halfway Homes in Ramanujan, Narayan, Karnad and Ananthamurthy
Anjum Hasan

36. Narrative Authority in the Colonial Novel
Rochelle Pinto

37. The Village in Bengali Modernity
Supriya Chaudhuri

Part VI: Modern Indian Forms and Media

38. Translation/Adaptation: The Vernacular Storyworld of Byomkesh Bakshi
Laura Brueck

39. Saadat Hasan Manto and the Poetics of the Urdu Short Story
Jennifer Dubrow

40. Voices of Resistance: Exploring Feminist Futurities in Kari and Shaheen Bagh: A Graphic Recollection
Rudrani Gangopadhyay

41. How to Play Indian Literature: Indian Videogames as a Literary Form
Souvik Mukherjee

42. "Together in the Leaves of the Book": Notes on a Bengali Modernist Poetics of Desire
Brinda Bose

43. The Poetics of Indian Hip Hop
Elloit Cardozo

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	30.08.2024
Reihe/Serie	Oxford Handbooks
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	185 x 259 mm
Gewicht	1451 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-19-764791-X / 019764791X
ISBN-13	978-0-19-764791-2 / 9780197647912
Zustand	Neuware