Transcultural Humanities in South Asia: Critical Essays on Literature and Culture

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Acknowledgements
List of contributors
Foreword
Introduction: transcultural humanities in South Asia: constrictions and connections
Part I Theorising the transcultural humanities: reimagined possibilities
	1 Humanities and hope
	2 Reimagining the humanities in a transcultural, post-truth world
	3 Post-cultural crises and the pandemic: what humanities?
	4 Beyond pillars and ‘posts’: transcultural humanities in South Asian literary studies
	5 The role of transcultural humanities in times of crisis: Nadeem Aslam, Karan Mahajan and Kashmir
Part II Borderless zones: tracing a poetics for transcultural
	6 Is there life in this author? the living author and the business and importance of the humanities in South Asia
	7 Sri Lankan literature and territoriality: the politics of literary criticism
	8 [Trans]cultural contact zones – a comparative study of archetypes: Persian dastan and Greek epic traditions
	9 Zones of every being: transcultural decolonisation and border thinking in contemporary India
	10 Languaging gesture/gesturing language: a case for rekhti poetry
Part III Postcolonial inquisition and transcultural intersections: politics, place, identity, migration
	11 Migration and the lesson of irony – on the political meaning of humanities: Saadat Hasan Manto and Søren Kierkegaard
	12 From post- to para-colonialism: (trans)national and cultural intersections in post-1988 Pakistani anglophone fiction
	13 Bhutan, Western Arunachal Pradesh and modern state-making: literary-[Trans]cultural mappings in Moi Akou Janam Lom and The Circle of Karma
	14 Migrant voices: an inquisition of the ‘other’ literature in Bangladesh
	15 Beyond identity politics: transcultural and multiple allegiances in Parajuly’s Land Where I Flee
Part IV Homing transculturation: nation, Partition, periphery
	16 Borders, belonging and diasporic aesthetics: tracing a transcultural conceptualisation of home in South Asian Partition fiction
	17 The nation and its peripheries: borderland narratives and theories of liminality
	18 The Long Partition: reading some Partition writers transculturally
	19 Reconstructing Partition memories in the new millennium
	20 Transcultural location of home in the fiction of Gao Xingjian
Part V Expressions of transculturality: theatre, art, communication, curricula
	21 Memory in theatre, theatre in memory: experiencing the ‘self/selves’ in Swadeshi theatre (1905–1911)
	22 Locating the transcultural humanities in South Asian art: frescoes in the Lahore Fort Seh-Dara
	23 Responses to 9/11: caricatures and Pashto poetry from Pakistan
	24 years of freedom of speech and expression in Pakistan: an intracultural analysis of press/media in time and social processes
	25 Learning to be ‘glocal’: reflections on transgressive theories and transcultural flows in a Pakistani ELT classroom and curriculum
Part VI Transcultural transformations: ethics, ideology, dilemma
	26 Aging, literature and the humanities: transcultural perspectives on literary gerontology in South Asia
	27 A Hindu in Pakistan (2011) and A Mad Man’s Diary (2014): distantiation, cultural transformation and redefinition of Pakistani minorities
	28 Ethics and empathy in Sri Lankan representations of refugees
	29 Dark moon, bright crescent: Tagore in China
	30 Transcultural dilemma in Tahmima Anam’s The Good Muslim: an analysis of Bangladesh through the competing visions of Maya and Sohail
Part VII Transcultural solidarities: gender and sexuality
	31 Envisioning the role of South Asian gender and sexuality studies in the transcultural humanities
	32 The outsourcing of pregnancy: transnational surrogacy in contemporary South Asian literature
	33 Socioreligious dichotomies and Indian re-feminism: a transcultural construct of goddesses and women in Sidhwa’s and Mehta’s Water
	34 Memoirs, Muslim women and transcultural symbolic solidarities
	35 Borders, women and South Asian transculturality
Afterword: transculturalism, the way forward . . .
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