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Honorable Mention, Harry Levin Prize, 2022 (American Comparative Literature Association)
Beyond English: World Literature and Indiaradically 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).
By emphasizing the centrality of "literature" (sahitya) through a close reading of texts, Tiwari orients world literature toward comparative literature and comparative literature toward a worldliness that is receptive to the poetics of a world in its original language and in translation.
Author: Bhavya Tiwari
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: 06/29/2023
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.63lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.44d
ISBN13: 9781501386879
ISBN10: 1501386875
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | Asian | Indic
- Literary Criticism | Comparative Literature
- Literary Criticism | Modern | 20th Century
Beyond English: World Literature and Indiaradically 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).
By emphasizing the centrality of "literature" (sahitya) through a close reading of texts, Tiwari orients world literature toward comparative literature and comparative literature toward a worldliness that is receptive to the poetics of a world in its original language and in translation.
Author: Bhavya Tiwari
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: 06/29/2023
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.63lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.44d
ISBN13: 9781501386879
ISBN10: 1501386875
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | Asian | Indic
- Literary Criticism | Comparative Literature
- Literary Criticism | Modern | 20th Century