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基本説明
This volume concentrates on one of the world's oldest, and most buoyant, book cultures: South Asia. It examines the transition from manuscript to hand press, orality and performance, scripts and nationalism, libraries and copyright, and the recent international vogue for Europhone writers from the region. A particular focus is on overseas publishers adjusting to the stresses of markets. Kipling, Anand, Nirad Chaudhuri, Rushdie and Zulkifar Ghose are each placed in their publishing frame, furthering an underlying discussion of distribution, reception and audience.
Full Description
This volume focuses on the publisher's series as a cultural formation - a material artifact and component of cultural hierarchies. Contributors engage with archival research, cultural theory, literary and bibliometric analysis (amongst a range of other approaches) to contextualize the publisher's series in terms of its cultural and economic work.
Contents
List of Figures List of Tables Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors Introduction; R.Fraser & M.Hammond The 'Book' in India: Orality, Manu-Script, Print, (Post)Colonialism; H.Trivedi The Many Worlds of the Vernacular Book: Performance, Literacy and Print in Colonial Bengal; A.Ghosh Publishing and Translating Hafez under Empire; K.Scoular Datta Missionary Writing and the Self-Fashioning of Assamese Cultural Identity in Colonial India: Revisiting the Past, Understanding the Present; H.Medhi Futures Past: Books, Reading, Culture in the Age of Liberalization; P.Joshi Book Circulation and Reader Responses in Colonial India; D.Finkelstein Thacker, Spink and Company: Bookselling and Printing in Mid Nineteenth-Century Calcutta; V.Condie Two Paradigms of Literary Production: The Production, Circulation and Legal Status of Rudyard Kipling's Departmental Ditties and Indian Railway Library Texts; S.Towheed War and the Colonial Book Trade: The Case of OUP India; R.Fraser Between Bloomsbury, Gandhi and Transcultural Modernities: The Publication and Reception of Mulk Raj Anand's Untouchable ; S.Nasta Talking to India: The Literary Production and Consumption of South Asian Anglophone Writers in Britain, 1940-55; R.Ranasinha Salman Rushdie and Zulfikar Ghosh in the Literary Marketplace; S.Brouillette Bibliography Index