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The Oxford Handbook of Modern Indian Literatures refutes the Anglocentrism of much literary criticism of the global South by examining "Indian Literature" as a multilingual, dialogic, and plural space constituted by both continuities and divergences. In forty-three chapters and with a team of scholars who exemplify the method of historically situated and theoretically rigorous literary criticism, this volume shows how the idea of Indian literature is a relational and comparative concept. Through readings of a vast diversity of multilingual literature in a range of genres, the chapters highlight contact zones and interchanges across seemingly sedimented boundaries. The Handbook provides an overview of the current state of modern Indian writing and features a range of texts and approaches from across India's many languages and literary traditions, examining and amplifying recent critical attention to the multilingualism that is at the base of any curation of what could be termed, with qualification, "Indian Literatures." The book ranges from the 19th century to the 21st, with especial focus on the centrality of gender and caste to Indian modernism and new generic formations such as graphic novels, autofiction, and videogames.
Contents
About the Volume Editors
Contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Modernity, Multilingualism, and the Literary Canon
Ulka Anjaria and Anjali Nerlekar
Part I: Approaches to Indian Modernities
1. Literary Multilingualism in the Age of the Vernacular
Francesca Orsini
2. English in India, India in English
Rajeswari Sunder Rajan
3. Concealments and Exposures: Translating Caste in Indian Literature
Rita Kothari
4. The Haunted Present: Contemporary Malayalam Fiction and Kerala's Unaccommodated Pasts
Udaya Kumar
5. Remaking Marathi: Modern Histories of Language and V. L. Bhave's Mahrashtra Saraswat
Prachi Desphande
6. Emergency in Ellipses: Styling Modernity in U. R. Ananthamurthy's Bara
C. S. Bhagya
7. Rhizomatic Entanglements: Nonhuman Representations in Yeshe Dorje Thongchi's "Baah Phulor Gundho"
Amit Baishya
Part II: The Indian Modern and its Legacies
8. Modernist Poetry and Marathi Modernism: Through the Lens of Dilip Chitre's Multimodal Oeuvre
Vinay Dharwadker
9. Mahasweta Devi and Indian Literature from Below
Auritro Majumder
10. Bilingual Premchand and His Legacy
M. Asaduddin
11. Elites, Subalterns, and the Postcolonial Nation: Indian English Novels of the 1980s and 1990s
Pranav Jani
12. William Jones, George Grierson, Verrier Elwin: Positioning the Horizons of Modern Indian Literature
G.N. Devy
13. A New Literature for a Naya Kashmir: Progressivism and Modernism in Modern Kashmiri Literature
Abir Bazaz
14. The Ambivalent Aesthetics of Muhammad Hasan Askari
Zain Mian
15. The Literary Management of Multilingualism in Postcolonial India: The Sahitya Akademi and the Case of Tamil New Poetry
Preetha Mani
Part III: Indian Modern Contact Zones
16. Memoir, Autofiction, and the New Indian Humanities
Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan
17. The Haunted Cane Fields of Queer Indo-Caribbean Poetry and Qoolie Poetics
Rajiv Mohabir
18. Ananda Devi's Laughing Goddesses and the Limitless Possibilities of Transnational Fiction
Srilata Ravi
19. Transnational Tamil Literature, Dialect, and Environment
Rebecca Whittington
20. Bengal from Both Sides: Partition in Amitav Ghosh's The Shadow Lines and Mahmudul Haque's Black Ice
Nasia Anam
21. Indian Gulf Writing
Mohamed Shafeeq Karinkurayil
22. Probable, Improbable, and Catastrophic Realisms in Amitav Ghosh's Fiction
Sangeeta Ray
Part IV: Counternarratives of the Indian Modern
23. Writing and Being Modern: Nation, Caste, Gender, and Women's Fiction
V. Geetha
24. The Rise of a Muslim Voice: Telugu Writing in the Times of Hindu Nationalism
Afsar Mohammad
25. Indian Literary History: Ambedkar and Dalit Literature
K. Satyanarayana
26. Irom Sharmila's Poetry and the Politics of Anthologizing Indian Literature
Soibam Haripriya
27. Representing Caste in Odia Literature
Raj Kumar
28. Toward a Canon of Modern Indian Queer Literature
R. Raj Rao
29. Adivasi Poetry: The Poetics of Indigeneity in Contemporary India
Joya John
30. Green, Red: From Pragati to Jujhar in the Cold War Punjab
Aditya Bahl
Part V: Circulations of the Indian Modern
31. Romance, Aesthetics and Progressivism in Marathi Literary Culture: Narayan Sitaram Phadke and the Modern Marathi Novel
Rahul Sarwate
32. Encasted Formalism: Notes on Reading Caste Scripts in Fiction
Vivek Narayan
33. Urban Space across Genre: The Cities of Gajanan Madhav Muktibodh
Gregory Goulding
34. Pastorals in the City: Space, Tradition and Translation in The Country Without a Post Office
Huzaifa Pandit
35. Ambiguous Journeys and Halfway Homes in Ramanujan, Narayan, Karnad and Ananthamurthy
Anjum Hasan
36. Narrative Authority in the Colonial Novel
Rochelle Pinto
37. The Village in Bengali Modernity
Supriya Chaudhuri
Part VI: Modern Indian Forms and Media
38. Translation/Adaptation: The Vernacular Storyworld of Byomkesh Bakshi
Laura Brueck
39. Saadat Hasan Manto and the Poetics of the Urdu Short Story
Jennifer Dubrow
40. Voices of Resistance: Exploring Feminist Futurities in Kari and Shaheen Bagh: A Graphic Recollection
Rudrani Gangopadhyay
41. How to Play Indian Literature: Indian Videogames as a Literary Form
Souvik Mukherjee
42. "Together in the Leaves of the Book": Notes on a Bengali Modernist Poetics of Desire
Brinda Bose
43. The Poetics of Indian Hip Hop
Elloit Cardozo
Index
