Transcultural humanities in South Asia : critical essays on literature and culture /

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Corporate Author: Taylor & Francis
Other Authors: Anwar, Waseem (Editor), Yousaf, Nosheen (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : Routledge, 2022.
Edition:First edition.
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Table of Contents:
  • Foreword Amritjit SinghIntroduction: Transcultural Humanities in South Asia: Constrictions and Connections Waseem AnwarPart 1. Theorising the Transcultural Humanities: Reimagined Possibilities Humanities and Hope Bill AshcroftReimagining the Humanities in a Transcultural, Post-Truth WorldWaqas Khwaja Post-cultural Crises and the Pandemic: What Humanities?Pradyumna S. ChauhanBeyond Pillars and 'Posts': Transcultural Humanities in South Asian Literary Studies Feroza JussawallaThe Role of Transcultural Humanities in Times of Crisis: Nadeem Aslam, Karan Mahajan, and KashmirJohn C. HawleyPart 2. Borderless Zones: Tracing a Poetics for Transcultural HumanitiesIs there Life in this Author? The Living Author and the Business and Importance of the Humanities in South Asia Mark J. BooneSri Lankan Literature and Territoriality: The Politics of Literary CriticismMinoli Salgado [Trans]Cultural Contact Zones - A Comparative Study of Archetypes: Persian Dastan and Greek Epic Tradition Areeba Tayyab and Kashif JamshaidZones of Every Being: Transcultural Decolonisation and Border Thinking in Contemporary IndiaSayan DeyLanguaging Gesture/ Gesturing Language: A Case for Rekhti PoetryAnisur RahmanPart 3. Postcolonial Inquisition and Transcultural Intersections: Politics, Place, Identity, MigrationMigration and the Lesson of Irony - On the Political Meaning of Humanities: Saadat Hasan Manto and Śøren KierkegaardChristine HabbardFrom Post- to Para-Colonialism: (Trans) National and Cultural Intersections in the Post-1988 Pakistani Anglophone Fiction Ali Usman SaleemBhutan, Western Arunachal Pradesh and Modern State-Making: Literary-[Trans]Cultural Mappings in Moi Akou Janam Lom and The Circle of KarmaRajashree Bargohain and Tshering ThinleyMigrant Voices: An Inquisition of the 'Other' Literature in BangladeshRukhsana R. ChowdhuryBeyond Identity Politics: Transcultural and Multiple Allegiances in Parajuly's Land Where I FleeBinod PaudyalPart 4. Homing Transculturation: Nation, Partition, PeripheryBorders, Belonging and Diasporic Aesthetics: Tracing a Transcultural Conceptualisation of Home in South Asian Partition FictionNudrat KamalThe Nation and its Peripheries: Borderland Narratives and Theories of LiminalitySwatee Sinha and Anjali Gera RoyThe Long Partition: Reading Some Partition Writers, TransculturallyTasneem ShahnaazReconstructing Partition Memories in the New Millennium Muneeza ShamsieTranscultural Location of Home in the Fiction of Gao Xingjian Farida ChishtiPart 5. Expressions of Transculturality: Theatre, Art, Communication, Curricula Memory in Theatre, Theatre in Memory: Experiencing the 'Self/Selves' in Swadeshi Theatre (1905-1911) Mimasha PanditLocating the Transcultural Humanities in South Asian Art: Frescoes in the Lahore Fort Seh-Dara Kanwal KhalidResponses Towards 9/11: Caricatures and Pashto Poetry from Pakistan Nukhbah Taj Langah and Kamal ud Din70 Years of Freedom of Speech and Expression in Pakistan: An Intracultural Analysis of Press/ Media in Time and Social Processes Altaf Ullah KhanLearning to be 'Glocal': Reflections on Transgressive Theories and Transcultural Flows in Pakistani ELT Classroom and CurriculumShirin ZubairPart 6. Transcultural Transformations: Ethics, Ideology, Dilemma Aging, Literature and the Humanities: Transcultural Perspectives on Literary Gerontology in South AsiaSaurav Kumar and Banibrata MahantaA Hindu in Pakistan (2011) and A Mad Man's Diary (2014): Distantiation, Cultural Transformation and Redefinition of Pakistani Minorities Wajiha Raza RizviEthics and Empathy in Sri Lankan Representations of RefugeesMaryse JayasuriyaDark Moon, Bright Crescent: Tagore in China Cynthia LeenertsTranscultural Dilemma in The Good Muslim: An Analysis of Bangladesh through the Competing Visions of Maya and Sohail Asif IqbalPart 7. Transcultural Solidarities: Gender and SexualityEnvisioning the Role of South Asian Gender and Sexuality Studies in the Transcultural Humanities Kavita Daiya and Sreyoshi SarkarThe Outsourcing of Pregnancy: Transnational Surrogacy in Contemporary South Asian LiteratureJana FedtkeSocioreligious Dichotomies and Indian Re-feminism: A Transcultural Construct of Goddesses and Women in Sidhwa's and Mehta's Water Syrrina Ahsan Ali HaqueMemoirs, Muslim Women and Transcultural Symbolic SolidaritiesNaila SaharBorders, Women and South Asian TransculturalityNosheen YousafAfterword: Transculturalism, the Way Forward...Fawzia Afzal-Khan