Literary India: Comparative Studies in Aesthetics, Colonialism, and Culture (S U N Y Series in Hindu Studies) PDF
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cover next page > title : author : publisher : isbn10 | asin : print isbn13 : ebook isbn13 : language : subject publication date : lcc : ddc : subject : cover next page > If you like this book, buy it! < previous page page_i next page > Page i Literary India < previous page page_i next page > If you like this book, buy it! < previous page page_ii next page > Page ii SUNY Series in Hindu Studies Wendy Doniger, Editor < previous page page_ii next page > If you like this book, buy it! < previous page page_iii next page > Page iii Literary India Comparative Studies in Aesthetics, Colonialism, and Culture Edited by Patrick Colm Hogan and Lalita Pandit STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK PRESS < previous page page_iii next page > If you like this book, buy it! < previous page page_iv next page > Page iv Production by Ruth Fisher Marketing by Nancy Farrell Published by State University of New York Press, Albany © 1995 State University of New York All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews. For information, address the State University of New York Press, State University Plaza, Albany, NY 12246 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Hogan, Patrick Colm. Literary India : comparative studies in aesthetics, colonialism, and culture / edited by Patrick Colm Hogan and Lalita Pandit.n p. cm. (SUNY series in Hindu studies) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-7914-2395-6 (alk. paper). ISBN 0-7914-2396-4 (alk. paper : pbk.) 1. Literature, ComparativeIndic and English. 2. Literature, ComparativeEnglish and Indic. 3. Indic literature (English)20th centuryHistory and criticism. 4. CriticismIndiaHistory20th century. I. Pandit, Lalita. II. Title. III. Series. PK5408.H64 1995 891'.1-dc20 94-16097 CIP 10987654321 < previous page page_iv next page > If you like this book, buy it! < previous page page_v next page > Page v The editors wish to dedicate this volume to their parents: Patrick Hogan Madonna Hogan B. N. Pandit Kamalavati Pandit < previous page page_v next page > If you like this book, buy it! < previous page page_vi next page > Page vii CONTENTS Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Multicultural Comparatism xi Part I: India and the Study of Comparative Literature 1 Beauty, Politics, and Cultural Otherness: The Bias of Literary Difference 3 Patrick Colm Hogan Part II: Theorizing Cultural Difference and Cross-Cultural Invariance: Authors, Readers, and Literary Language 2 The Question of Authorship in Indian Literature 47 Jeffrey Ebbesen 3 The Genre Theory in Sanskrit Poetics 63 V. K. Chari 4 The Yolk in the Pea-Hen's Egg: Language as the Ultimate Reality 81 W. P. Lehmann Part III: Interpreting Cultural Difference and Cross-Cultural Invariance: Precolonial, Colonial, and Postcolonial 5 Patriarchy and Paranoia: Imaginary Infidelity in Uttararamacarita and The Winter's Tale 103 Lalita Pandit < previous page page_vi next page > If you like this book, buy it! < previous page page_viii next page > Page viii 6 Ray's Devi 135 Norman N. Holland 7 The Poetics of Exile and the Politics of Home 141 Una Chaudhuri Part IV: Hybridity and Universals: An Interlude 8 A Sense of Detail and a Sense of Order: Anita Desai 153 Interviewed by Lalita Pandit Part V: Interpreting Literary Contact: Translation, Influence, and Writing Back 9 Translating Indian Literary Texts into English 175 P. K. Saha 10 Nautanki and the Struggle for Independence, National Integration, and Social Change: A Brechtian Analysis 189 Darius L. Swann 11 Caste, Race, and Nation: History and Dialectic in Rabindranath Tagore's Gora 207 Lalita Pandit Part VI: Theorizing Colonial Contact: Hybrid Identities and the Possibility of Postcolonial Culture 12 The Postcolonial Critic: Homi Bhabha 237 Interviewed by David Bennett and Terry Collits 13 Culture, State, and the Rediscovery of Indian Politics 255 Ashis Nandy Notes on Contributors 275 Index 277 < previous page page_viii next page > If you like this book, buy it! < previous page page_ix next page > Page ix ACKNOWLEDGMENTS "The Postcolonial Critic: Homi Bhabha Interviewed by David Bennett and Terry Collits" was previously published in arena: a marxist journal of criticism and discussion 96 (Spring 1991): 47-63. We are grateful to professors Bhabha, Bennett, and Collits and to the editors of the journal for permission to reprint. Ashis Nandy's "Culture, State, and the Rediscovery of Indian Politics" was previously published in Interculture (April 1988) and, in an earlier version, in the Economic and Political Weekly (December 8, 1984). We are grateful to Professor Nandy for permission to reprint. The essays in this volume, and the overall shape of the volume itself, benefited greatly from the comments of four anonymous readers for the State University of New York Press. We are grateful for their care in reading the manuscript and for their suggestions. We are also grateful to William Eastman for choosing such scrupulous readers and for his more general support of the manuscript. In addition, thanks are due to Michael A. Baker for his great care in copy-editing the manuscript, and Ruth Fisher for her work on the production of the manuscript. This project would never have come to fruition had it not been for the patience and encouragement of Wendy Doniger. Working with her on this project has proven almost as rewarding as reading her invaluable analyses of myth or her lucid and beautiful translations of literary and religious texts. < previous page page_ix next page > If you like this book, buy it! < previous page page_xi next page > Page xi INTRODUCTION: MULTICULTURAL COMPARATISM In the last decade, Indian and other non-Western literatures have begun to work their way into the mainstream of English and American literary study. Not unrelated to this, there has been a more generalized interest in placing works of literatureboth Western and non-Westernwithin broader cultural contexts. However, comparative studies involving non-Western works have remained relatively narrow, focusing almost entirely on contemporary literature in European languages. Moreover, much of the critical work in this field has concentrated exclusively on colonialism and the attempts of Anglophone and Francophone writers to respond to European cultural hegemony through anticolonial or postcolonial writings. Thus, with a few exceptions, mainstream comparatists have paid little attention either to indigenous literary traditions in non-Western countries or to the range of noncolonial issues important to contemporary non-Western literatures. Our broad goal in assembling this collection is, then, to think more encompassingly about comparative literature, to consider a wider range of similarities and differences, interactions and reactions, in order to understand better both the artistic form and the social import of any literature. To this end, we have designed the volume to present an overview of the major issuesaesthetic, political, and more inclusively culturalthat define or should define a comparative field of study. Our more narrow goal in this collection is to advance comparative work in the specific area of South Asian literature. Literature of the Indian subcontinent is particularly appropriate for broadly comparative study because it includes one of the oldest literary traditions in the world and, even < previous page page_xi next page > If you like this book, buy it!
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