Literary Cultures in History - Reconstructions From South Asia

"A superb collection. This pathbreaking book is sure to have wide and lasting interest not only for students of South Asian literature, but for anyone interested in the role of literature in cultural self-definition, conflict and change."—David Damrosch, President, American Comparative Literature Association and editor of The Longman Anthology British Literature

"This tour-de-force might be not only a landmark in Indian cultural history, but a major accomplishment in the scholarship of global cultures, inviting us to think critically about forms of history and communities of literature."—Walter D. Mignolo, author of Local Histories/Global Designs: Coloniality, Subaltern Knowledges and Border Thinking

About the author

Sheldon Pollock is William B. Ransford Professor of Sanskrit and South Asian Studies at Columbia University. His previous publications include The Ramayana of Valmiki, Volume III: Aranyakanda (1991) and Cosmopolitanism (2002, with Homi Bhabha et al.).

Summary

Considers fifteen South Asian literary traditions - including Hindi, Indian-English, Persian, Sanskrit, Tibetan, and Urdu - in their full historical and cultural variety. This title makes a contribution to historical cultural studies and to literary theory in addition to the new perspectives it offers on what literature has meant in South Asia.

Product details

• Authors: Sheldon Pollock
• Assisted by: Sheldon Pollock (Editor), Pollock Sheldon (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.05.2003
• EAN: 9780520228214
• ISBN: 978-0-520-22821-4
• No. of pages: 1104
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; LITERARY CRITICISM / Middle Eastern, Middle East, Literary studies: general