D. Venkat Rao teaches at the English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad. His earlier works include, In Citations: Readings in Area Studies of Culture (1999) and a translation of The Last Brahmin (2007). He writes in English and Telugu in the areas of literary and cultural studies, mnemocultures and comparative thought.

• Chapter 1. Introduction: Through the Postcolonial Abyss.- Part I: Signatures of Memory.- Chapter 2. Configurations of Memory and the Work of Difference.- Chapter 3. Futures of the Past: Mnemocultures and the Question of Inheritance.- Part II: Mnemotexts of Reflection.- Chapter 4. Learning in the Double Bind: Mnemotextual Inquiries and Action Knowledge.- Chapter 5. Fables of Identity and Contingencies of Certainty: Disarticulations of the Panchatantra.- Chapter 6. Tanunapat: Kalos, Philos and the Vestiges of Trace.- Part III: Embodiments of Response.- Chapter 7. The Mahabharata Contretemps: Temporality, Finitude and the Modes of Being in the Itihasa.- Chapter 8. Responsive Receptions: The Question of Translation beyond the Accursed Zone.- Chapter 9. Listening to the Text looms of Vemana: Memory, History and the Archives of Betrayal.- Chapter 10. Close Ups: Approaching Critical Humanities.

D. Venkat Rao teaches at the English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad. His earlier works include, In Citations: Readings in Area Studies of Culture (1999) and a translation of The Last Brahmin (2007). He writes in English and Telugu in the areas of literary and cultural studies, mnemocultures and comparative thought.

• Chapter 1. Introduction: Through the Postcolonial Abyss.- Part I: Signatures of Memory.- Chapter 2. Configurations of Memory and the Work of Difference.- Chapter 3. Futures of the Past: Mnemocultures and the Question of Inheritance.- Part II: Mnemotexts of Reflection.- Chapter 4. Learning in the Double Bind: Mnemotextual Inquiries and Action Knowledge.- Chapter 5. Fables of Identity and Contingencies of Certainty: Disarticulations of the Panchatantra.- Chapter 6. Tanunapat: Kalos, Philos and the Vestiges of Trace.- Part III: Embodiments of Response.- Chapter 7. The Mahabharata Contretemps: Temporality, Finitude and the Modes of Being in the Itihasa.- Chapter 8. Responsive Receptions: The Question of Translation beyond the Accursed Zone.- Chapter 9. Listening to the Text looms of Vemana: Memory, History and the Archives of Betrayal.- Chapter 10. Close Ups: Approaching Critical Humanities.