Patrick Colm Hogan is Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Connecticut. Lalita Pandit is Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Wisconsin at La Crosse.

"The breadth of discussion of Indian literature is impressive. Texts analyzed range from classical Sanskrit works to contemporary films. Moreover, the use of comparative literature methodologies is certainly illuminating for those who have been schooled mainly in English literature or South Asian Studies. Comparatist approaches offer rich, new possibilities for literary and cultural analysis." — Janet M. Powers, Gettysburg College"In all essays India and its cultural concerns are firmly anchored in global cultural and theoretical perspectives. This focus makes for originality and insight." — Steven F. Walker, Rutgers University

• Acknowledgments Introduction: Multicultural Comparatism Part I: India and the Study of Comparative Literature1 Beauty, Politics, and Cultural Otherness: The Bias of Literary DifferencePatrick Colm Hogan Part II: Theorizing Cultural Difference and Cross-CulturalInvariance: Authors, Readers, and Literary Language2 The Question of Authorship in Indian LiteratureJeffrey Ebbesen3 The Genre Theory in Sanskrit PoeticsV. K. Chari4 The Yolk in the Pea-Hen's Egg: Language as the Ultimate RealityW. P. Lehmann Part III: Interpreting Cultural Difference and Cross-Cultural Invariance: Precolonial, Colonial, and Postcolonial5 Patriarchy and Paranoia: Imaginary Infidelity in Uttararamacarita and The Winter's TaleLalita Pandit6 Ray's DeviNorman N. Holland7 The Poetics of Exile and the Politics of HomeUna Chaudhuri Part IV: Hybridity and Universals: An Interlude8 A Sense of Detail and a Sense of Order: Anita DesaiInterviewed by Lalita Pandit Part V: Interpreting Literary Contact: Translation, Influence, and Writing Back9 Translating Indian Literary Texts into EnglishP. K. Saha10 Nautanki and the Struggle for Independence, National Integration, and Social Change: A Brechtian AnalysisDarius L. Swann11 Caste, Race, and Nation: History and Dialectic inRabindranath Tagore's GoraLalita Pandit Part VI: Theorizing Colonial Contact: Hybrid Identities and the Possibility of Postcolonial Culture12 The Postcolonial Critic: Homi BhabhaInterviewed by David Bennett and Terry Collits13 Culture, State, and the Rediscovery of Indian PoliticsAshis Nandy Notes on Contributors Index

Patrick Colm Hogan is Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Connecticut. Lalita Pandit is Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Wisconsin at La Crosse.

"The breadth of discussion of Indian literature is impressive. Texts analyzed range from classical Sanskrit works to contemporary films. Moreover, the use of comparative literature methodologies is certainly illuminating for those who have been schooled mainly in English literature or South Asian Studies. Comparatist approaches offer rich, new possibilities for literary and cultural analysis." — Janet M. Powers, Gettysburg College"In all essays India and its cultural concerns are firmly anchored in global cultural and theoretical perspectives. This focus makes for originality and insight." — Steven F. Walker, Rutgers University

• Acknowledgments Introduction: Multicultural Comparatism Part I: India and the Study of Comparative Literature1 Beauty, Politics, and Cultural Otherness: The Bias of Literary DifferencePatrick Colm Hogan Part II: Theorizing Cultural Difference and Cross-CulturalInvariance: Authors, Readers, and Literary Language2 The Question of Authorship in Indian LiteratureJeffrey Ebbesen3 The Genre Theory in Sanskrit PoeticsV. K. Chari4 The Yolk in the Pea-Hen's Egg: Language as the Ultimate RealityW. P. Lehmann Part III: Interpreting Cultural Difference and Cross-Cultural Invariance: Precolonial, Colonial, and Postcolonial5 Patriarchy and Paranoia: Imaginary Infidelity in Uttararamacarita and The Winter's TaleLalita Pandit6 Ray's DeviNorman N. Holland7 The Poetics of Exile and the Politics of HomeUna Chaudhuri Part IV: Hybridity and Universals: An Interlude8 A Sense of Detail and a Sense of Order: Anita DesaiInterviewed by Lalita Pandit Part V: Interpreting Literary Contact: Translation, Influence, and Writing Back9 Translating Indian Literary Texts into EnglishP. K. Saha10 Nautanki and the Struggle for Independence, National Integration, and Social Change: A Brechtian AnalysisDarius L. Swann11 Caste, Race, and Nation: History and Dialectic inRabindranath Tagore's GoraLalita Pandit Part VI: Theorizing Colonial Contact: Hybrid Identities and the Possibility of Postcolonial Culture12 The Postcolonial Critic: Homi BhabhaInterviewed by David Bennett and Terry Collits13 Culture, State, and the Rediscovery of Indian PoliticsAshis Nandy Notes on Contributors Index

Patrick Colm Hogan is Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Connecticut. Lalita Pandit is Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Wisconsin at La Crosse.

"The breadth of discussion of Indian literature is impressive. Texts analyzed range from classical Sanskrit works to contemporary films. Moreover, the use of comparative literature methodologies is certainly illuminating for those who have been schooled mainly in English literature or South Asian Studies. Comparatist approaches offer rich, new possibilities for literary and cultural analysis." — Janet M. Powers, Gettysburg College"In all essays India and its cultural concerns are firmly anchored in global cultural and theoretical perspectives. This focus makes for originality and insight." — Steven F. Walker, Rutgers University

• Acknowledgments Introduction: Multicultural Comparatism Part I: India and the Study of Comparative Literature1 Beauty, Politics, and Cultural Otherness: The Bias of Literary DifferencePatrick Colm Hogan Part II: Theorizing Cultural Difference and Cross-CulturalInvariance: Authors, Readers, and Literary Language2 The Question of Authorship in Indian LiteratureJeffrey Ebbesen3 The Genre Theory in Sanskrit PoeticsV. K. Chari4 The Yolk in the Pea-Hen's Egg: Language as the Ultimate RealityW. P. Lehmann Part III: Interpreting Cultural Difference and Cross-Cultural Invariance: Precolonial, Colonial, and Postcolonial5 Patriarchy and Paranoia: Imaginary Infidelity in Uttararamacarita and The Winter's TaleLalita Pandit6 Ray's DeviNorman N. Holland7 The Poetics of Exile and the Politics of HomeUna Chaudhuri Part IV: Hybridity and Universals: An Interlude8 A Sense of Detail and a Sense of Order: Anita DesaiInterviewed by Lalita Pandit Part V: Interpreting Literary Contact: Translation, Influence, and Writing Back9 Translating Indian Literary Texts into EnglishP. K. Saha10 Nautanki and the Struggle for Independence, National Integration, and Social Change: A Brechtian AnalysisDarius L. Swann11 Caste, Race, and Nation: History and Dialectic inRabindranath Tagore's GoraLalita Pandit Part VI: Theorizing Colonial Contact: Hybrid Identities and the Possibility of Postcolonial Culture12 The Postcolonial Critic: Homi BhabhaInterviewed by David Bennett and Terry Collits13 Culture, State, and the Rediscovery of Indian PoliticsAshis Nandy Notes on Contributors Index