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Society, representation, and textuality the critical interface
- Title
- Society, representation, and textuality the critical interface / dited by Sukalpa Bhattacharjee, C. Joshua Thomas.
- Publication
- New Delhi ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE Publications, 2013.
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- Description
- xliv, 274 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
- Summary
- This book brings together papers from various critical perspectives of Humanities and Social Sciences. The work (a) takes stock of the recent developments in critical theory and cultural studies; (b) studies the impact of these developments on the understanding of social reality and the human predicament in India; and (c) brings together scholars from North East India who are engaged in the project of understanding society and communities in their chosen intellectual practice. The book is the first-ever attempt to establish a dialogic encounter between critical practices in Humanities and Social Sciences, hitherto considered to be autonomous in their own disciplinary boundaries. Further, the volume addresses issues of identity and autonomy of a multicultural India, particularly with reference to the interface between hegemonic cultures and politically and culturally persistent smaller communities. A significant feature of this book is its attempt to theorize and describe the myriad manifestations of the critical interface between society and literary/cultural productions.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Textualizing social discourse. Science and Literature: A Study of Rabindranath Tagore's Music / Partha S Ghose ; Rabindranath Tagore's Philosophy of Art and Literature / Goutam Biswas ; The New Comparative Literature 'To Come' as a Critique of Cosmopolitanism / Sourav Kargupta ; Islam and Theodicy: A Critique of Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood's Theological Approach to Evil / Mohammad Maroof Shah ; Suturing of Selves Past: The Body in Revolution / Anirban Das ; Literature, Society and the Calling of Creative Public Spheres: Beyond Adaptation and Meditative Verbs of Transformations / Ananta Kumar Giri. -- II: Textuality and representations. Enugula Veeraswamy's Journal: A Study / Mohan G Ramanan ; Kafka : Literature, Law and language / Franson Davis Manjali ; Understanding Tribal World View: A Painter's Perspective / Sujata Miri ; Reiterating Stereotypes: Assessing the Role of Women in Contemporary Jatra / Somdatta Mandal ; The Reinterpretation of Historical Trauma: Three Films about Partition / M K Raghavendra ; Identity and Politics in the Songs of Contemporary African American Women / Ellerine Diengdoh. -- III: Societies, literature and the ethnic life-world. Society and Literature in Northeast India: Articulating Marginality / Kailash C Baral ; Transcribing Orality: A Study of Ki Jingsneng Tymmen / Esther Syiem ; The Interface of Mizo Society and Literature / Margaret Ch Zama ; Folklore and Folk Traditions as a Cohesive in Nepali Community in India / Utpala Ghaley Sewa ; Singing The Nation: Pratima Pandey Barua, The Princess of the Lost Lores / Jyotirmoy Prodhani ; The Revenant in Some Urban Legends of Shillong / Desmond L Kharmawphlang ; Inter-Community Relations in Medieval Bengal As Reflected in Contemporary Bengali Vernacular Literature / Muhammad Shah Noorur Rahman.
- ISBN
- 9788132109532 (hardback : alk. paper)
- 8132109538 (hardback : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2012044258
- OCLC
- ocn818293591
- 818293591
- SCSB-5736187
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries