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Indigenous Imaginaries argues for a redefinition of humanities from a comparative perspective anchored in the regional literary traditions of India. These indigenous traditions have negotiated hegemonic structures of power over centuries through creative engagements with differences and dogmas. The central argument here concerns the need to reconfigure epistemologies that do not accommodate the compulsions of creativity and critical reflection in a multilingual ...
Locating Indian Literature attempts to explore the category of ‘Indian literature’ in relation to emerging discourses of marginality, region, resistance and the role of translation in the making and unmaking of literary traditions. Interrogating theoretical positions that present Indian literature as an essentialist category, it emphasises the pluralistic and performative elements of Indian literatures. In its first section, E.V. Ramakrishnan ...
Now in paperback edition, this anthology of forty-three stories from twenty one languages reflect the diversity and complexity of life lived in India. From the violence and mass hysteria of the Partition of the suppressed rage and the gnawing self-pity of individuals trapped in broken homes these stories capture the outer and the inner lives of Indian society. The sacred and the profane, the elite and subaltern meet in many-layered narratives in these stories, ...