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Indic literature --- -East Indian literature --- Indian literature (East Indian) --- Indo-Aryan literature --- Translations into English --- India --- Literary collections. --- -Translations into English

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The advances of book history and editorial theory remind us that it is vital to look behind the text we read. Sukanta Chaudhuri explores, at a very fundamental level, how texts are constituted and how they work. He applies insights from many lines of study not brought together so closely before: theories of language, signification and reception alongside bibliography, textual criticism, editorial theory and book history. Blending case studies with general observation and theory, he considers the implications of the physical form of the text; the relation between oral and written language, and between language and other media; the new territory opened up by electronic texts; and special categories like play-books and translations. Drawing on an exceptionally wide range of material, both Western literature and Indian works from Sanskrit aesthetics to the poetry of Rabindranath Tagore, Chaudhuri sets a new agenda for the study of texts.

Indo-European literature --- Indic languages --- Pragmatics --- 82.0 --- Literatuurtheorie --- 82.0 Literatuurtheorie --- Discourse analysis, Literary --- Indic literature --- East Indian literature --- Indian literature (East Indian) --- Indo-Aryan literature --- Literary discourse analysis --- Rhetoric --- Literary style --- Criticism, Textual

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This volume, the outcome of a seminar organized at the International Institute for Asian Studies, Leiden, marks an important advancement in the study of South Indian Sanskrit manuscripts which are predominantly on palm leaf and rarely older than three to four centuries. Nevertheless, they continued a manuscript culture for around two millennia and had a profound impact on traditions of knowledge and culture. After an introductory essay (by J.E.M. Houben and S. Rath) addressing theoretical and historical issues of text transmission in manuscripts and in India’s remarkably strong oral memory culture, it contains twelve contributions dealing with South Indian manuscript collections in India and Europe (mainly of Vedic and Sanskrit texts) and with problems related to the scripts, the dating of manuscripts and India's literary and intellectual history. Contributors include: G. Colas, A.A. Esposito, M. Fujii, C. Galewicz, J.E.M. Houben, H. Moser, P. Perumal, K. Plofker, S. Rath, S.R. Sarma, D. Wujastyk, K.G. Zysk

Manuscripts, Indic --- Manuscripts, Sanskrit --- Palm-leaf manuscripts --- Indic literature --- ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLES / General --- East Indian literature --- Indian literature (East Indian) --- Indo-Aryan literature --- Indic manuscripts --- Indo-Aryan manuscripts --- Sanskrit manuscripts --- Manuscripts, Palm-leaf --- Manuscripts --- History --- Collectors and collecting

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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”.

Literature. --- Comparative literature. --- Postcolonial/World Literature. --- Comparative Literature. --- Indic literature. --- East Indian literature --- Indian literature (East Indian) --- Indo-Aryan literature --- Literature   . --- Comparative literature --- Literature, Comparative --- Philology --- Belles-lettres --- Western literature (Western countries) --- World literature --- Authors --- Authorship --- History and criticism --- postcolonial --- world literature

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While many people see ‘home’ as the domestic sphere and place of belonging, it is hard to grasp its manifold implications, and even harder to provide a tidy definition of what it is. Over the past century, discussion of home and nation has been a highly complex matter, with broad political ramifications, including the realignment of nation-states and national boundaries. Against this backdrop, this book suggests that ‘home’ is constructed on the assumption that what it defines is constantly in flux and thus can never capture an objective perspective, an ultimate truth. Along these lines, Unreliable Truths offers a comparative literary approach to the construction of home and concomitant notions of uncertainty and unreliable narration in South Asian diasporic women’s literature from the UK, Australia, South Africa, the Caribbean, North America, and Canada. Writers discussed in detail include Feroza Jussawalla, Suneeta Peres da Costa, Meera Syal, Farida Karodia, Shani Mootoo, Shobha Dé, and Oonya Kempadoo. With its focus on transcultural homes, Unreliable Truths goes beyond discussions of diaspora from an established postcolonial point of view and contributes with its investigation of transcultural unreliable narration to the representation of a g/local South Asian diaspora.

Women and literature --- Women and literature. --- Literature --- History --- 1900-1999 --- India. --- Bharat --- Bhārata --- Government of India --- Ḣindiston Respublikasi --- Inde --- Indi --- Indien --- Indii͡ --- Indland --- Indo --- Republic of India --- Sāthāranarat ʻIndīa --- Yin-tu --- Indic literature --- Truth in literature. --- Reliability. --- Dependability --- Trustworthiness --- Conduct of life --- East Indian literature --- Indian literature (East Indian) --- Indo-Aryan literature --- Women authors --- History and criticism.