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For the last eighteen hundred years Indian arts have been seen in terms of strictly classified emotional effects known as the rasas. The Tenth Rasa: An Anthology of Indian Nonsense celebrates, for the very first time, what Sukumar Ray called the 'Spirit of Whimsy', or the Tenth Rasa, through the topsy-turvy, irreverent, melodic genre of nonsense literature. This fabulous selection of poetry and prose, brilliantly translated from seventeen Indian languages across ...
A melange of surveys, introductions, essays, reviews and interviews, this unique book offers a window-view to some key cultural figures, historical moments, and issues in one of India's fascinating locations --Orissa--whose rich and ancient literary heritage remains relatively obscure to the world outside. Between them the pieces here ably illustrate, contrary to popular misconception, how traditional as well as contemporary Oriya literature has been enriched by ...
An anthology of critical essays on new literary representations from the Global South, this book seeks to reorient the ideological, disciplinary, aesthetic and pedagogical thrusts of postcolonial studies in accordance with the new and shifting politico-economic realities and transactions between the North-South, as well as within the Global South, in an era of globalization. It attempts to evolve conceptual paradigms for a meaningful engagement with issues ...
Signifying the Self-Women and Literature is a collection of essays that explores the multifarious expressions of feminism in India. It is divided into five sections: women’s autobiography, writing by Dalit women of Bengal, Gujarat, Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh; regional and global issues in women’s writing; same-sex love in women’s literature & film and the male gaze. Dealing with texts as disparate as Tagore’s early twentieth century novel Choker ...