Inter-sections: Essays on Indian Literatures, Translations and Popular Consciousness
Publisher: Orient BlackSwan, Hyderabad
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Hyderabad
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 276
Description: Inter-sections: Essays on Indian Literatures, Translations and Popular Consciousness is a collection of eighteen discursive essays on a diverse range of subjects; from the history of literary genres to the future of humanities, from locating Indian Literatures to mapping Indian English fiction/drama, from Punjabi literature, history and culture to the theory and practice of translation, from media-driven literary evaluation to multiple ways of shaping popular consciousness. Written over the past decade or so, these essays raise some questions of fundamental nature in our post-colonial, post modern era, emphasising the need for an inter-disciplinary approach to mediate both thought and knowledge. Born of intellectual convictions of the author developed over time, and written in an easy, accessible, non-pedantic style, these essays fall across a range of contemporary issues and concerns that are bound to engage scholars as well as lay readers, with the same gusto.
Table of contents: title: Inter-sections: Essays on Indian Literatures, Translations and Popular Consciousness; title: Contents; title: Introduction; title: Prologue: Notes towards the History of Literary Genres; title: Reading Indian and Indian English Literatures; title: 1. Locating/Dis-locating Indian Literatures: A Metacritical Narrative; title: 2. Emerging Trends & Techniques in Indian English Fiction; title: 3. Post-Independence Indian English Drama: An Overview; title: Punjabi Literature: Some Contexts and Texts; title: 4. Punjabi Literature through the Prism of History; title: 5. Novel as a Site of Cultural Memory: Gurdial Singh’s Parsa; title: 6  Atamjit’s Kamloops Dian Macchian: Polyphonic Discourse and Dramatic Art; title: 7. Narratives of Dispersal: A Reading of Raghbir Dhand’s Stories; title: 8. Post-colonial Katha: Continuities and Ruptures in Videshi Punjabi Short Fiction; title: Reading Translation(s); title: 9. Author as Translator: Paradigms and Possibilities in the Indian Context; title: 10. Punjabi & English: Mediating the History of Language, Literature &; title: Translation; title: 11. Bhisham Sahni’s Tamas: Multiple Historical Perspectives & Literary Art; title: 12. Mahasweta Devi’s Mother of 1084: A Narrative of Healing; title: Power, Hegemony and Mass Media: Case Studies in Popular Consciousness; title: 13. Language, Consciousness and Mass Media; title: 14. Influence, Power and Empowerment; title: 15. Little Magazines in Punjabi: A Historical Overview; title: 16. Class, Ideology and Politics of Globalisation: A Case Study; title: Epilogue: Rediscovering Humanities in Life and Literature; title: Index