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Books Without Borders, Volume 2

Perspectives from South Asia

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Editors:
  1. Robert Fraser

    1. Open University, UK

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  2. Mary Hammond

    1. University of Southampton, UK

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Introduction From Palmyra to Print: The Book in South Asia

    • Robert Fraser, Mary Hammond
    Pages 1-11

  3. The ‘Book’ in India: Orality, Manu-Script, Print (Post)Colonialism

    • Harish Trivedi
    Pages 12-33

  4. The Many Worlds of the Vernacular Book: Performance, Literacy and Print in Colonial Bengal

    • Anindita Ghosh
    Pages 34-57

  5. Publishing and Translating Hafez Under Empire

    • Kitty Scoular Datta
    Pages 58-70

  6. Missionary Writing and the Self-Fashioning of Assamese Cultural Identity in Colonial India: Revisiting the Past, Understanding the Present

    • Hemjyoti Medhi
    Pages 71-84

  7. Futures Past: Books, Reading, Culture in the Age of Liberalization

    • Priya Joshi
    Pages 85-99

  8. Book Circulation and Reader Responses in Colonial India

    • David Finkelstein
    Pages 100-111

  9. Thacker, Spink and Company: Bookselling and Publishing in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Calcutta

    • Victoria Condie
    Pages 112-124

  10. Two Paradigms of Literary Production: The Production, Circulation and Legal Status of Rudyard Kipling’s Departmental Ditties and Indian Railway Library Texts

    • Shafquat Towheed
    Pages 125-136

  11. War and the Colonial Book Trade: The Case of OUP India

    • Robert Fraser
    Pages 137-150

  12. Between Bloomsbury and Gandhi? The Background to the Publication and Reception of Mulk Raj Anand’s Untouchable

    • Susheila Nasta
    Pages 151-169

  13. Talking to India: The Literary Production and Consumption of Selected South Asian Anglophone Writers in Britain and the USA (1940s–1950s)

    • Ruvani Ranasinha
    Pages 170-180

  14. Salman Rushdie and Zulfikar Ghose in the Literary Marketplace

    • Sarah Brouillette
    Pages 181-195

  15. Back Matter

    Pages 196-204
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About this book

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.

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'Books without Borders offers an indispensable body of scholarship and theory.' - Leslie Howsam, SHARP-News

Editors and Affiliations

  • Open University, UK

    Robert Fraser

  • University of Southampton, UK

    Mary Hammond

About the editors

SARAH BROUILLETTE is Assistant Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA. VICTORIA CONDIE has taught Middle English Literature and History of Art for Oxford University's Department of Continuing Education and at Greyfriars Hall. She is currently researching the history of Thacker, Spink and Co. KITTY SCOULAR DATTA is associate lecturer, Open University, UK. ANINDITA GHOSH is Lecturer in Modern History, University of Manchester, UK. PRIYA JOSHI is Associate Professor of English, Temple University, Philadelphia, USA. HEMJYOTI MEDHI teaches postgraduate students in the Dept. of English and Foreign Languages, Tezpur University, India. SUSHEILA NASTA is Professor in Modern Literature, Open University, UK. RUVANI RANASINHA is Senior Lecturer in English, King's College London, UK. SHAFQUAT TOWHEED is Lecturer in Literature and Book History, Open University, UK. HARISH TRIVEDI is Professor of English, University of Delhi, India.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Books Without Borders, Volume 2

  • Book Subtitle: Perspectives from South Asia

  • Editors: Robert Fraser, Mary Hammond

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230289130

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2008

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-21033-2Published: 10 July 2008

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-30290-1Published: 10 July 2008

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-28913-0Published: 10 July 2008

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 204

  • Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Cultural History, Asian History, Literature, general, Fiction

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