Modern Indian Literature as Cosmopolis

Acknowledgments

Preface

Introduction:

Indialab and the Wild Kromosome

Part 1 - Sites of Literary Thought: Theorizing with "India"

Introduction:

Complexity as Cliche 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 Non-Fiction

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

Work Cited

Index

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• Estudos literários: literatura pós-colonial
• Estudos regionais
• Geografia regional

Indian Literature;Postcolonial Literature;South Asian Studies;20th Century;19th Century;21st Century;world literature;Postmodernity