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This volume offers crucial insights into the making Punjabi language and literature, and its critical tradition across a century.
List of contents
AcknowledgementsTranslator's Note
Alpna SainiIntroduction
Rana NayarSection-I: Background and OverviewPunjabi Language: Evolution, Growth and Possibilities1. The History of Punjabi Language
Pyara Singh Padam2. Literary Development of Punjabi Language
Vidya Bhaskar ArunPunjabi Literature: A Historical Survey3. Main Trends in Punjabi Literature
Parminder Singh, Kirpal Singh Kasel, Gobind Singh LambaProblematics of Punjabi Literary History and Historiography4. Methods and Problems in Writing the History of Punjabi Literature
Sant Singh SekhonPunjabi Culture5. Punjabi Language, Literature and Culture
T.R. Vinod6. The Culture(s) of Punjab
Gurbax Singh Frank: Punjabi Folk Literature7. Folklore and Literature
Sohinder Singh Bedi8. Dynamics of Creative Process in Folk Literature
Nahar SinghSection-II: Theorising Medieval Literary FormsLiterature of the Medieval Age9. Folklore and Medieval Punjabi Literature
Karnail S. Thind Gurmat Literature10. Gurmat Poetry - Tradition and Multiple Perspectives
Jagbir Singh
11. The World of Gurbani - Principles of Interpretation
Jagbir Singh
Aesthetics of Gurmat Literature12. The Poetic Form in the Philosophy of Guru Granth Sahib
Gopal Singh13. Literary History of Shri Guru Granth Sahib
Taaran Singh Sufi Literature14. Critical Reflections on Punjabi Sufi Poetry
Haribhajan Singh15. The Poetic Universe of the Sufis
Haribhajan Singh Punjabi Narrative Traditions16. Origin and Development of Punjabi Prose in the Medieval Times
Gurcharan Singh17. Qissas and Romance: A Historical Perspective
Sant Singh SekhonSection-III: Theorising Modern Literary FormsPunjabi Literature of the Modern Age18. An Overview of New Punjabi Literature
Kartar Singh DuggalModern Punjabi Poetry19. Reading Modern Punjabi Poetry - From Bhai Vir Singh to Surjit Patar
Tejwant Singh GillModern Punjabi Fiction20. Theoretical Possibilities in the Modern Punjabi Novel
J.S. Rahi21. A Critical Study of the Punjabi Novel
Niranjan Tasneem Modern Punjabi Drama22. History of Punjabi Drama
Satish Kumar Verma23. Rethinking Punjabi Drama
Satish Kumar VermaSection-IV: Theorising Contemporary Issues in Punjabi LiteratureProgressive Punjabi Literature and Marxist Aesthetics 24. Poetry and Social Criticism
Sant Singh Sekhon25. Contemporary Progressive Literature
Kishan SinghPunjabi Meta Criticism26. Punjabi Meta Criticism: Past and Present
Harbhajan Singh BhatiaPunjabi Literature and Feminist Movement27. Punjabi Diasporic Fiction - A Feminist Perspective
Dhanwant Kaur28. The Linguistic Revival of Punjabi Feminism
Fakhra HassanPunjabi Literature and Dalit Aesthetics 29. Existence, Identity and Beyond - Tracing the Contours of Dalit Literature in Punjabi
Paramjit S. Judge30. Contemporary Punjabi Dalit Poetry: A Distinct Ideological Discourse
Yograj List of Contributors
Index
About the author
Rana Nayar is Professor (Retired) from the Department of English & Cultural Studies, Panjab University, Chandigarh in 2017. His main areas of interest are World Drama/Theatre, Translation Studies, Literary Theory and Cultural Studies. A practising translator of repute (Charles Wallace India Trust Fellow & Sahitya Akademi Prize Winner), he has rendered around 12 modern classics of Punjabi into English. These include novels, short stories and poetry and range across the works of Gurdial Singh, Mohan Bhandari, Raghbir Dhand and Beeba Balwant, published by Macmillan, National Book Trust, Sahitya Akademi, Sterling, Fiction House, Katha, Rupa and Unistar et al. He also has one collection of poems
Breathing Spaces (Unistar, Chandigarh) and four critical books, i.e.,
Edward Albee: Towards a Typology of Relationships (Prestige, New Delhi, 2003),
Inter-sections: Essays on Indian Literatures, Translations and Popular Consciousness (Hyderabad: Orient BlackSwan, 2012),
Gurdial Singh: A Reader (New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi, 2012) and
Cultural Studies in India (New York, London, New Delhi: Routledge, 2016), an anthology, edited along with Pushpinder Syal and Akshaya Kumar, to his credit. A committed theatre lover, he has directed over 20 major full-length productions, and has acted in almost as many.
Alpna Saini is Professor of English at Central University of Punjab, Bathinda, India. Her areas of interest include gender studies, cultural studies, Indian drama, Indian cinema and translation studies. She translates from Punjabi and Hindi into English and vice versa. She has extensively published research articles and translations from Punjabi and Hindi to English. She has published a book of critical essays on the drama of Girish Karnad titled
Subjectivity as a Locus of Conflicts in Girish Karnad: a Discussion of his Plays. She has also edited and introduced a book titled
Negotiating Boundaries: A Study of Bushra Ejaz's Writings with Neetu Purohit. Her most recent work of translation was
Blood Flowers: Selected Poems of Harbhajan Singh Hundal which she co-edited with Rajesh Sharma.
Tania Bansal completed her PHD in Comparative Literature from Central University of Punjab, Bathinda in 2017. After serving on the faculty of Chitkara University, Himachal Pradesh, she moved to Akal University, Talwandi Sabo (Punjab). Currently she is serving as Assistant Professor at Chandigarh University, Gharuan, Mohali. Her research interests are new historicism, feminism, partition history and translation.
