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  • The Form of Ideology and the Ideology of Form

    Cold War, Decolonization and Third World Print Cultures

    This timely volume focuses on the period of decolonization and the Cold War as the backdrop to the emergence of new and diverse literary aesthetics that accompanied anti-imperialist commitments and Afro-Asian solidarity. Competing internationalist frameworks produced a flurry of writings that made Asian, African and other world literatures visible to each other for the first time. The book’s ... Leer más

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  • Oral Literary Worlds

    Location, Transmission and Circulation

    The discipline of world literature has traditionally focused on written literatures, particularly the novel, with little emphasis placed on the unwritten verbal arts, despite the significance of oral literary expressions around the world, in the past as in the present. This volume redresses this gap by putting the discipline of world literature into dialogue with scholarship on orature and ... Leer más

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  • Tellings and Texts

    Music, Literature and Performance in North India

    Examining materials from early modern and contemporary North India and Pakistan, Tellings and Texts brings together seventeen first-rate papers on the relations between written and oral texts, their performance, and the musical traditions these performances have entailed. The contributions from some of the best scholars in the field cover a wide range of literary genres and social and cultural ... Leer más

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  • East of Delhi

    Multilingual Literary Culture and World Literature

    Series series South Asia Research
    Like many societies across the world, the region of Awadh in North India has been bilingual throughout its history. But literary histories of the region often indicate otherwise. In the early twentieth century, colonists recodified literary histories separately according to language, detached written literature from oral literature, and reimagined the entangled literary past according to their own ... Leer más

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  • Print and Pleasure

    Popular Literature and Entertaining Fictions in Colonial North India

    Print and Pleasure tells the story behind the boom in commercial publishing in nineteenth-century North India.How did the new technology of printing and the enterprise of Indian publishers make the book a familiar object and a necessary part of people’s leisure in a largely illiterate society? What genres became popular in print? Who read them and how were they read?Our perception of North Indian ... Leer más

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  • The Hindi Public Sphere 1920–1940

    Language and Literature in the Age of Nationalism

    This book analyses how a language became the instrument with which the contours of a new nation were traced. Mapping the success of formalized Hindi in creating a regional public sphere in north India in the early twentieth century, the book explores the way many educated Indians, influenced by the British ideas and institutions, expressed interest in new concepts such as progress, unity, and a ... Leer más

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  • Before the Divide: Hindi and Urdu Literary Culture

    Based on a workshop on 'Intermediary Genres in Hindi and Urdu', Before the Divide: Hindi and Urdu Literary Culture is an attempt to rethink aspects of the literary histories of these two languages.Today, Hindi and Urdu are considered two separate languages, each with its own script, history, literary canon and cultural orientation. Yet, pre-colonial India was a deeply multilingual society with ... Leer más

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  • The History of the Book in South Asia

    Edición de Francesca Orsini ...
    Series series The History of the Book in the East
    The History of the Book in South Asia covers not only the various modern states that make up South Asia today but also a multitude of languages and scripts. For centuries it was manuscripts that dominated book production and circulation, and printing technology only began to make an impact in the late eighteenth century. Print flourished in the colonial period and in particular lithographic ... Leer más

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  • Migrant Cartographies

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  • The Routledge Companion to World Literature and World History

    Edición de May Hawas ...
    Series series Routledge Literature Companions
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  • Literature in Translation

    Teaching Issues and Reading Practices

    Series series Translation Studies
    New pedagogy for studying literature in translationIn the last several decades, literary works from around the world have made their way onto the reading lists of American university and college courses in an increasingly wide variety of disciplines. This is a cause for rejoicing. Through works in translation, students in our mostly monolingual society are at last becoming acquainted with the ... Leer más

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