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Indian Literature and the World

Multilingualism, Translation, and the Public Sphere

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Editors:
  1. Rossella Ciocca

    1. English and Anglophone Literatures, University of Naples ‘L’Orientale’, Naples, Italy

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  2. Neelam Srivastava

    1. School of English, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

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  • Moves beyond restrictive Anglocentric approaches

  • Features contributions from a spectrum of academics, from early career researchers to key names in the field

  • Addresses areas such as translation studies as well as postcolonial studies and world literature

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vi
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  2. Introduction: Indian Literature and the World

    • Rossella Ciocca, Neelam Srivastava
    Pages 1-32

  4. Enlarging the World Literary Canon: New Voices and Translation

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 103-103
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    2. A Multiple Addressivity: Indian Subaltern Autobiographies and the Role of Translation

      • Neelam Srivastava
      Pages 105-134

    3. The Modern Tamil Novel: Changing Identities and Transformations

      • Lakshmi Holmström
      Pages 135-151

    4. The Voices of Krishna Sobti in the Polyphonic Canon of Indian Literature

      • Stefania Cavaliere
      Pages 153-173

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 283-288
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About this book

This book is about the most vibrant yet under-studied aspects of Indian writing today. It examines multilingualism, current debates on postcolonial versus world literature, the impact of translation on an “Indian” literary canon, and Indian authors’ engagement with the public sphere. The essays cover political activism and the North-East Tribal novel; the role of work in the contemporary Indian fictional imaginary; history as felt and reconceived by the acclaimed Hindi author Krishna Sobti; Bombay fictions; the Dalit autobiography in translation and its problematic international success; development, ecocriticism and activist literature; casteism and access to literacy in the South; and gender and diaspora as dominant themes in writing from and about the subcontinent. Troubling Eurocentric genre distinctions and the split between citizen and subject, the collection approaches Indian literature from the perspective of its constant interactions between private and public narratives, thereby proposing a method of reading Indian texts that goes beyond their habitual postcolonial identifications as “national allegories”.

Editors and Affiliations

  • English and Anglophone Literatures, University of Naples ‘L’Orientale’, Naples, Italy

    Rossella Ciocca

  • School of English, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

    Neelam Srivastava

About the editors

Rossella Ciocca is Professor of English and Anglophone Literatures at the University of Naples “l’Orientale”, Italy. She has worked on early modern literature and culture, Shakespeare, colonial and post-colonial history and literature. Her recent works include essays on the Partition of India, Mumbai novels and Tribal literature. She has co-edited Indiascapes: Images and Words from Globalised India (2008) and Parole e culture in movimento La città e le tecnologie mobili della comunicazione (2014). She is currently co-editing a new project with Sanjukta Das Gupta, titled Out of Hidden India: Adivasi Histories, Stories, Visualities and Performances.

Neelam Srivastava is Senior Lecturer in Postcolonial Literature at Newcastle University, UK. She is the co-editor of The Postcolonial Gramsci (2012), and the author of Secularism in the Postcolonial Indian Novel (2008). She has published widely on contemporary Indian literature, Frantz Fanon, and anti-colonial cinema. She is completing a book on the cultural history of Italian imperialism and transnational anti-colonial networks. Between 2008 and 2011, she coordinated an international collaboration funded by the Leverhulme Trust, entitled “Postcolonial Translation: The Case of South Asia”. 

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Indian Literature and the World

  • Book Subtitle: Multilingualism, Translation, and the Public Sphere

  • Editors: Rossella Ciocca, Neelam Srivastava

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-54550-3

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-54549-7Published: 16 May 2017

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-54550-3Published: 09 May 2017

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VI, 288

  • Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Postcolonial/World Literature, Comparative Literature

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