Modern Indian Literature as Cosmopolis: Conversations with Hanuman

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Endorsements Page
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Series Page
Title Page
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction: Indialab and the Wild Kromosome
Part 1 Sites of Literary Thought: Theorizing with “India.”
	Introduction: Complexity as Cliché and as Field Extension
		1 Indian Literature as a Comparative Exercise
		2 World Literature: Home and/or the World?
		3 Postcoloniality: Beyond and Besides
		4 Rasa, Dhvani, Raga, Reading
Part 2 Versatile (Mis)understandings
	Introduction: Marabar Caves Forever—a Mystique of Unknowing?
		5 Firangi Visions
		6 Divided Togetherness: Maitreyi and Mircea
		7 Elusive, Liminal, and Imagined Indiannesses
Part 3 Transmission, Transformation, Transgression
	Introduction: Indian Untranslatables and Transmission
		8 Transnation, Translation, Heteroglossia
		9 Transgender and Transgenre
		10 Form and Metamorphoses in Poetry
Part 4 Fictional and Argumentative Aesthetics
	Introduction: Aesthetic Dimensions in Practice
		11 Aesthetics of Disorder and Disaster
		12 Aesthetics of Blood and Flesh
		13 Participation and Embodiment in Arundhati Roy’s Nonfiction
Part 5 Benefiting from Loss
	Introduction: Days of Future Past and Past Futures
		14 Gods and Ghosts in Our Backyard
		15 History into Fiction or Vice Versa
		16 Comparative Exclusions
		17 Unfulfilled Femininities
	Postscript: Vagrant Non-endings: A Conversation with Dr. Gautam Chakrabarti
Works Cited
Index