1st Edition

Global South Asia South Asian Literatures and the World

Edited By Madhurima Chakraborty Copyright 2022
184 Pages
by Routledge

184 Pages
by Routledge

184 Pages
by Routledge

This book collects essays that take on the excavatory, critical, and generative work of rethinking the relationship between South Asia and the world. In examining what kind of new relationships are uncovered between these two geopolitical groupings, the chapters in this book argue that South Asian literature and literary criticism can reframe the common narrative of the powerful Global North and... Read more

1. Introduction: South Asian Literature and the World 

Madhurima Chakraborty 

2. Between World and Home: Tagore and Goethe 

R. Radhakrishnan 

3. "Against the Biggest Buccaneering Enterprise in Living History": Krishna Menon and the Colonial Response to International Crisis 

Brant Moscovitch 

4. Bodies in Translation/Transition: (Re)Writing Kashmir, Kaschmir, Cashmere in Agha Shahid Ali’s Poetry 

Wafa Hamid 

5. Home, Away from Home: Violence, Womanhood and Home/Land in Jahnavi Barua’s Fiction 

Uddipana Goswami 

6. From Cheap Labor to Overlooked Citizens: Looking for British Muslim Identities in Kamila Shamsie’s Home Fire 

Debjani Banerjee 

7. Dastan-e Amir Hamza and Salman Rushdie’s Two Years, Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights 

Anonymous Author 

8. Ajitesh Bandyopadhyay, Nandikar, and the World: Staging World Literature in Bengali 

Souradeep Roy 

9. Queering the Colonial in Shyam Selvadurai’s Swimming in the Monsoon Sea 

Tuli Chatterji 

10. At the Interface of Colonial Knowing and Unknowing: A Critical Reading of the Golden Camellia in Amitav Ghosh’s River of Smoke 

Gaana Jayagopalan 

11. Unveiling the Transcultural: The Question of Identity in Suneeta Peres da Costa’s Saudade 

Khaoula Chakour 

12. Looking Backward to a Distant Land: South Asian Diaspora and Function of Nostalgia in "Silver Pavements, Golden Roofs," "Mrs. Sen’s" and The Inheritance of Loss 

Farzana Akhter 

Biography

Madhurima Chakraborty is Associate Professor in the English and Creative Writing department at Columbia College Chicago. She is one of the editors of Postcolonial Urban Outcasts: City Margins in South Asian Literature, the editor of South Asian Review’s special issue on South Asian Literatures in the World, and co-editor of another SAR special issue on The Nation and Its Discontents. Her shorter work has also appeared in the Journal of Postcolonial Writing, Literature/Film Quarterly, and South Asian Review, among others.