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Transcultural Humanities in South Asia Critical Essays on Literature and Culture

Edited By Waseem Anwar, Nosheen Yousaf Copyright 2022
    516 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    516 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge
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    This volume looks at the implications of transcultural humanities in South Asia, which is becoming a crucial area of research within literary and cultural studies. The volume also explores various complex critical dimensions of transculturation, its indeterminate periodisation, its temporal and spatial nonlinearity, its territoriality and intersectionality.

    Drawing on contributors from around the globe, the entries look at literature and poetics, theory and praxis, borders and nations, politics, Partition, gender and sexuality, the environment, representations in art and pedagogy and the transcultural classroom. Using key examples and case studies, the contributors look at current developments in transcultural and transnational standpoints and their possible educational outcomes. A broad and comprehensive collection, as it also speaks about the value of the humanities and the significance of South Asian contexts, Transcultural Humanities in South Asia will be of particular interest to those working on postcolonial studies, literary studies, Asian studies and more.

    Foreword

    Amritjit Singh

    Introduction: Transcultural Humanities in South Asia: Constrictions and Connections

    Waseem Anwar

    Part I. Theorising the Transcultural Humanities: Reimagined Possibilities

    1. Humanities and Hope

      2. Bill Ashcroft

    2. Reimagining the Humanities in a Transcultural, Post-Truth World

      3. Waqas Khwaja

    3. Post-cultural Crises and the Pandemic: What Humanities?

      4. Pradyumna S. Chauhan

    4. Beyond Pillars and ‘Posts’: Transcultural Humanities in South Asian Literary Studies Feroza Jussawalla

      5.

    5. The Role of Transcultural Humanities in Times of Crisis: Nadeem Aslam, Karan Mahajan, and Kashmir

      6. John C. Hawley

      　

      Part II. Borderless Zones: Tracing a Poetics for Transcultural Humanities

    6. Is there Life in this Author? The Living Author and the Business and Importance of the Humanities in South Asia

      7. Mark J. Boone

    7. Sri Lankan Literature and Territoriality: The Politics of Literary Criticism

      8. Minoli Salgado

    8. [Trans]Cultural Contact Zones – A Comparative Study of Archetypes: Persian Dastan and Greek Epic Tradition

      9. Areeba Tayyab and Kashif Jamshaid

    9. Zones of Every Being: Transcultural Decolonisation and Border Thinking in Contemporary India

      10. Sayan Dey

    10. Languaging Gesture/ Gesturing Language: A Case for Rekhti Poetry

      11. Anisur Rahman

      　

      Part III. Postcolonial Inquisition and Transcultural Intersections: Politics, Place, Identity, Migration

    11. Migration and the Lesson of Irony - On the Political Meaning of Humanities: Saadat Hasan Manto and Sǿren Kierkegaard

      12. Christine Habbard

    12. From Post- to Para-Colonialism: (Trans) National and Cultural Intersections in the Post-1988 Pakistani Anglophone Fiction

      13. Ali Usman Saleem

    13. Bhutan, Western Arunachal Pradesh and Modern State-Making: Literary-[Trans]Cultural Mappings in Moi Akou Janam Lom and The Circle of Karma

      14. Rajashree Bargohain and Tshering Thinley

    14. Migrant Voices: An Inquisition of the ‘Other’ Literature in Bangladesh

      15. Rukhsana R. Chowdhury

    15. Beyond Identity Politics: Transcultural and Multiple Allegiances in Parajuly’s Land Where I Flee

      16. Binod Paudyal

      Part IV. Homing Transculturation: Nation, Partition, Periphery

    16. Borders, Belonging and Diasporic Aesthetics: Tracing a Transcultural Conceptualisation of Home in South Asian Partition Fiction

      17. Nudrat Kamal

    17. The Nation and its Peripheries: Borderland Narratives and Theories of Liminality

      18. Swatee Sinha and Anjali Gera Roy

    18. The Long Partition: Reading Some Partition Writers, Transculturally

      19. Tasneem Shahnaaz

    19. Reconstructing Partition Memories in the New Millennium

      20. Muneeza Shamsie

    20. Transcultural Location of Home in the Fiction of Gao Xingjian

      21. Farida Chishti

      　

      　

      Part V. Expressions of Transculturality: Theatre, Art, Communication, Curricula

    21. Memory in Theatre, Theatre in Memory: Experiencing the ‘Self/Selves’ in Swadeshi Theatre (1905-1911)

      22. Mimasha Pandit

    22. Locating the Transcultural Humanities in South Asian Art: Frescoes in the Lahore Fort Seh-Dara

      23. Kanwal Khalid

      　

    23. Responses Towards 9/11: Caricatures and Pashto Poetry from Pakistan

      24. Nukhbah Taj Langah and Kamal ud Din

      　

    24. 70 Years of Freedom of Speech and Expression in Pakistan: An Intracultural Analysis of Press/ Media in Time and Social Processes

      25. Altaf Ullah Khan

    25. Learning to be ‘Glocal’: Reflections on Transgressive Theories and Transcultural Flows in Pakistani ELT Classroom and Curriculum

      26. Shirin Zubair

      　

      Part VI. Transcultural Transformations: Ethics, Ideology, Dilemma

    26. Aging, Literature and the Humanities: Transcultural Perspectives on Literary Gerontology in South Asia

      27. Saurav Kumar and Banibrata Mahanta

    27. A Hindu in Pakistan (2011) and A Mad Man’s Diary (2014): Distantiation, Cultural Transformation and Redefinition of Pakistani Minorities

      28. Wajiha Raza Rizvi

    28. Ethics and Empathy in Sri Lankan Representations of Refugees

      29. Maryse Jayasuriya

    29. Dark Moon, Bright Crescent: Tagore in China

      30. Cynthia Leenerts

    30. Transcultural Dilemma in The Good Muslim: An Analysis of Bangladesh through the Competing Visions of Maya and Sohail

      31. Asif Iqbal

      　

      Part VII. Transcultural Solidarities: Gender and Sexuality

    31. Envisioning the Role of South Asian Gender and Sexuality Studies in the Transcultural Humanities

      32. Kavita Daiya and Sreyoshi Sarkar

    32. The Outsourcing of Pregnancy: Transnational Surrogacy in Contemporary South Asian Literature

      33. Jana Fedtke

    33. Socioreligious Dichotomies and Indian Re-feminism: A Transcultural Construct of Goddesses and Women in Sidhwa’s and Mehta’s Water

      34. Syrrina Ahsan Ali Haque

    34. Memoirs, Muslim Women and Transcultural Symbolic Solidarities

      35. Naila Sahar

    35. Borders, Women and South Asian Transculturality

    Nosheen Yousaf

    　

    Afterword: Transculturalism, the Way Forward…

    Fawzia Afzal-Khan

    Biography

    Waseem Anwar is Professor of English and Director ICPWE (International Centre for Pakistani Writing in English) at Kinnaird College for Women, Lahore, Pakistan. Former Dean of Humanities and chairperson at FCC and GC universities in Lahore, he is extensively published in the areas of literary theory, postcolonial studies; and British, American, African and South Asian literatures. 　

    Nosheen Yousaf is a lecturer in English at Government College University, Faisalabad, Pakistan. Her articles are published in national dailies The Nation and the Dawn. Her MPhil thesis on racial binaries and transracial realities helped her develop her research interests in the areas of border studies and post-feminism.

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