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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.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Note on Translation
Introduction: Beyond English
1. Why World Literature?
Vishva Sahitya
Universalism, Sahitya, and Sahit
Translation and Vishva Sahitya
2. Here Is World Literature
The World-making of the English Gitanjali
Tagore's Translations, World-making, and Gitanjali in Prose-poems
World-making of Gitanjali in Spanish
3. The World Is in the Lyrics
The World in Lyrics
The World-making of Chhayavaad
World vs. Vishva Sahitya in Hindi
4. (Woman) Author and the World
World-making vs. Vishva
Varma's Sahitya and Vishva
5. World in Translation, World in the Original
Chemmeen's Vishva in India and Beyond
To Compare, To World
World-making of Small Things
India in the Original, India in Translation
Coda: World Literature and India
Endnotes
Bibliography
Index
