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This broad and comprehensive book also speaks volumes to the value of the humanities, and the significance of South Asian contexts. It will be of particular interest to those working on postcolonial studies, literary studies, Asian Studies and more.
List of contents
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
Bill Ashcroft 2. Reimagining the Humanities in a Transcultural, Post-Truth World
Waqas Khwaja 3. Post-cultural Crises and the Pandemic: What Humanities?
Pradyumna S. Chauhan 4. Beyond Pillars and 'Posts': Transcultural Humanities in South Asian Literary Studies
Feroza Jussawalla 5. The Role of Transcultural Humanities in Times of Crisis: Nadeem Aslam, Karan Mahajan, and Kashmir
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
Mark J. Boone 7. Sri Lankan Literature and Territoriality: The Politics of Literary Criticism
Minoli Salgado 8. [Trans]Cultural Contact Zones - A Comparative Study of Archetypes: Persian
Dastan and Greek Epic Traditions
Areeba Tayyab and Kashif Jamshaid 9. Zones of Every Being: Transcultural Decolonisation and Border Thinking in Contemporary India
Sayan Dey 10. Languaging Gesture/ Gesturing Language: A Case for
Rekhti Poetry
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
S¿ren Kierkegaard
Christine Habbard 12. From Post- to Para-Colonialism: (Trans) National and Cultural Intersections in Post-1988 Pakistani Anglophone Fiction
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 Rajashree Bargohain and Tshering Thinley 14. Migrant Voices: An Inquisition of the 'Other' Literature in Bangladesh
Rukhsana R. Chowdhury 15. Beyond Identity Politics: Transcultural and Multiple Allegiances in Parajuly's
Land Where I Flee 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
Nudrat Kamal 17. The Nation and its Peripheries: Borderland Narratives and Theories of Liminality
Swatee Sinha and Anjali Gera Roy 18.
The Long Partition: Reading Some Partition Writers Transculturally
Tasneem Shahnaaz 19. Reconstructing Partition Memories in the New Millennium
Muneeza Shamsie 20. Transcultural Location of Home in the Fiction of Gao Xingjian
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)
Mimasha Pandit 22. Locating the Transcultural Humanities in South Asian Art: Frescoes in the Lahore Fort
Seh-Dara Kanwal Khalid 23. Responses Towards 9/11: Caricatures and Pashto Poetry from Pakistan
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
Altaf Ullah Khan 25. Learning to be 'Glocal': Reflections on Transgressive Theories and Transcultural Flows in Pakistani ELT Classroom and Curriculum
Shirin Zubair Part VI. Transcultural Transformations: Ethics, Ideology, Dilemma 26. Aging, Literature and the Humanities: Transcultural Perspectives on Literary Gerontology in South Asia
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
Wajiha Raza Rizvi 28. Ethics and Empathy in Sri Lankan Representations of Refugees
Maryse Jayasuriya 29. Dark Moon, Bright Crescent: Tagore in China
Cynthia Leenerts 30. Transcultural Dilemma in
The Good Muslim:
An Analysis of Bangladesh through the Competing Visions of Maya and Sohail
Asif Iqbal Part VII. Transcultural Solidarities: Gender and Sexuality 31. Envisioning the Role of South Asian Gender and Sexuality Studies in the Transcultural Humanities
Kavita Daiya and Sreyoshi Sarkar 32. The Outsourcing of Pregnancy: Transnational Surrogacy in Contemporary South Asian Literature
Jana Fedtke 33. Socioreligious Dichotomies and Indian Re-feminism: A Transcultural Construct of Goddesses and Women in Sidhwa's and Mehta's
Water Syrrina Ahsan Ali Haque 34. Memoirs, Muslim Women and Transcultural Symbolic Solidarities
Naila Sahar 35. Borders, Women and South Asian Transculturality
Nosheen Yousaf Afterword: Transculturalism, the Way Forward...
Fawzia Afzal-Khan
About the author
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.
