ABSTRACT
This volume looks at the implications of transcultural humanities in South Asia, which is becoming a crucial area of research within literary and cultural studies. The volume also explores various complex critical dimensions of transculturation, its indeterminate periodisation, its temporal and spatial nonlinearity, its territoriality and intersectionality.
Drawing on contributors from around the globe, the entries look at literature and poetics, theory and praxis, borders and nations, politics, Partition, gender and sexuality, the environment, representations in art and pedagogy and the transcultural classroom. Using key examples and case studies, the contributors look at current developments in transcultural and transnational standpoints and their possible educational outcomes. A broad and comprehensive collection, as it also speaks about the value of the humanities and the significance of South Asian contexts, Transcultural Humanities in South Asia will be of particular interest to those working on postcolonial studies, literary studies, Asian studies and more.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|68 pages
Theorising the transcultural humanities
chapter 4|12 pages
Beyond pillars and ‘posts’
chapter 5|13 pages
The role of transcultural humanities in times of crisis
part II|64 pages
Borderless zones
chapter 6|12 pages
Is there life in this author?
chapter 8|11 pages
[Trans]cultural contact zones – a comparative study of archetypes
chapter 9|14 pages
Zones of every being
part III|64 pages
Postcolonial inquisition and transcultural intersections
chapter 11|12 pages
Migration and the lesson of irony – on the political meaning of humanities
chapter 12|13 pages
From post- to para-colonialism
chapter 13|12 pages
Bhutan, Western Arunachal Pradesh and modern state-making
chapter 15|12 pages
Beyond identity politics
part IV|65 pages
Homing transculturation
chapter 16|13 pages
Borders, belonging and diasporic aesthetics
part V|63 pages
Expressions of transculturality
chapter 21|12 pages
Memory in theatre, theatre in memory
chapter 22|12 pages
Locating the transcultural humanities in South Asian art
chapter 24|12 pages
70 years of freedom of speech and expression in Pakistan
chapter 25|12 pages
Learning to be ‘glocal’
part VI|64 pages
Transcultural transformations
chapter 26|13 pages
Aging, literature and the humanities
chapter 27|12 pages
A Hindu in Pakistan (2011) and A Mad Man's Diary (2014)
chapter 30|12 pages
Transcultural dilemma in Tahmima Anam's The Good Muslim
part VII|72 pages
Transcultural solidarities