1st Edition
Literary Sentiments in the Vernacular Gender and Genre in Modern South Asia
Introduction
Charu Gupta, Laura Brueck, Hans Harder and Shobna Nijhawan
1. Female Mobility and Bengali Women’s Travelogues in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
Hans Harder
2. Masculine Vernacular Histories of Travel in Colonial India: The Writings of Satyadev ‘Parivrajak’
Charu Gupta
3. Malika Begum’s Mehfil: The Lost Legacy of Women’s Travel Writing in Urdu
Daniel Majchrowicz
4. Nationality and Fashionality: Hats, Lawyers and Other Important Things to Remember
David Boyk
5. Adoption in Hindi Fiction: Contesting Normative Understandings of Parenting and Parenthood in Late Colonial India
Shobna Nijhawan
6. An Aesthetics of Isolation: How Pudumaippittan Gave Pre- Eminence to the Tamil Short Story
Preetha Mani
7. The LCD (Lowest Common Denominator) of Language: The Materialist Poetry of Arun Kolatkar and R.K. Joshi
Anjali Nerlekar
8. ‘Justice’ in Translation
Christi Merrill
9. Mother Tongues— the Disruptive Possibilities of Feminist Vernaculars
Laura Brueck
Appendix
Biography
Charu Gupta is Professor in the Department of History, University of Delhi. She is the author of Sexuality, Obscenity, Community: Women, Muslims and the Hindu Public in Colonial India (2001) and The Gender of Caste: Representing Dalits in Print (2016).
Laura Brueck is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at Northwestern University. Her book, Writing Resistance: The Rhetorical Imagination of Hindi Dalit Literature (2014) analyzes the vernacular discursive sphere of contemporary Hindi Dalit literature.
Hans Harder studied Indology and cultural anthropology at Hamburg, Heidelberg and Halle universities, and has been Professor of Modern South Asian Languages and Literatures at the South Asia Institute, Heidelberg University, Germany, since 2007.
Shobna Nijhawan is Associate Professor at the Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics, York University (Toronto). She researches Hindi literature of the early twentieth century published in women’s, children’s, medical and literary periodicals.
