Beyond English

World Literature and India

AvBhavya Tiwari

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Engelska, 2021

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Honorable Mention, Harry Levin Prize, 2022 (American Comparative Literature Association)Beyond English: World Literature and India radically alters the debates on world literature that hinge on the model of circulation and global capital by deeply engaging with the idea of the world and world-making in South Asia. Tiwari argues that Indic words for world (vishva, jagat, sansar) offer a nuanced understanding of world literature that is antithetical to a commodified and standardized monolingual globe. She develops a comparative study of the concept of “world literature” (vishva sahitya) in Rabindranath Tagore's works, the desire for a new world in the lyrics of the Hindi shadowism (chhayavaad) poets, and world-making in Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai's Chemmeen (1956) and Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things (1997). By emphasizing the centrality of “literature” (sahitya) through a close reading of texts, Tiwari orients world literature toward comparative literature and comparative literature toward a worldliness that is receptive to the poetics of a world in its original language and in translation.

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Utgivningsdatum:2021-11-04
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:208
Kopieringsskydd:LCP
ISBN:9781501334658
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (Digital)
Serie:Literatures as World Literature

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Bhavya Tiwari is Assistant Professor in the Department of Modern and Classical Languages at the University of Houston, USA.

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Tiwari has written a lively riposte to “world literature” mongering that is also a wide-ranging introduction to aspects of twentieth century Indian literature in various languages. Engaging the work of well-known writers like Rabindranath Tagore as well as of writers who should be better known, like the Hindi-language Chhayavaad poet Mahadevi Varma, Tiwari boldly changes the terrain over which the “world literature” debate is conducted by bringing to the fore critical terms through which the non-Anglophone writers that she examines themselves understood this debate. Through this decolonizing move she takes us not just beyond English but beyond “world literature” to what she intriguingly calls a “worldly comparative literature.”

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AcknowledgmentsNote on TranslationIntroduction: Beyond English1. Why World Literature? Vishva SahityaUniversalism, Sahitya, and SahitTranslation and Vishva Sahitya2. Here Is World LiteratureThe World-making of the English GitanjaliTagore's Translations, World-making, and Gitanjali in Prose-poemsWorld-making of Gitanjali in Spanish3. The World Is in the LyricsThe World in LyricsThe World-making of ChhayavaadWorld vs. Vishva Sahitya in Hindi4. (Woman) Author and the WorldWorld-making vs. VishvaVarma's Sahitya and Vishva5. World in Translation, World in the OriginalChemmeen's Vishva in India and BeyondTo Compare, To WorldWorld-making of Small ThingsIndia in the Original, India in TranslationCoda: World Literature and IndiaEndnotesBibliographyIndex