Pub Date : 2024-01-31DOI: 10.1080/02759527.2024.2307123
Debjani Sengupta
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Pub Date : 2024-01-27DOI: 10.1080/02759527.2024.2308424
Eva Sharma, Isha Malhotra, Aditya Gandotra
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Pub Date : 2024-01-27DOI: 10.1080/02759527.2024.2304994
Moussa Pourya Asl, Syaidatul Asyiqin binti Mohd Hanafiah
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Pub Date : 2024-01-24DOI: 10.1080/02759527.2024.2306441
Sandra Mariam Xavier, Asha Thomas
{"title":"City from the Margins: A Reading of\u0000 Kari","authors":"Sandra Mariam Xavier, Asha Thomas","doi":"10.1080/02759527.2024.2306441","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02759527.2024.2306441","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":85563,"journal":{"name":"South Asian review","volume":"61 25","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139600679","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-01-16DOI: 10.1080/02759527.2024.2301835
Pratyusha Pramanik
{"title":"Of Dreams and Denials: The Imagined History in Mahasweta Devi’s\u0000 Draupadi\u0000 and\u0000 Mother of 1084","authors":"Pratyusha Pramanik","doi":"10.1080/02759527.2024.2301835","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02759527.2024.2301835","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":85563,"journal":{"name":"South Asian review","volume":" 35","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139619547","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-11-09DOI: 10.1080/02759527.2023.2281040
Nobonita Rakshit, Rashmi Gaur, Rahul K. Gairola
AbstractIn an era of unprecedented global connectivity and ecological crises, the concept of “place” has been profoundly transformed within post-colonised communities. This study examines how literature, specifically Uzma Aslam Khan’s Thinner Than Skin (2012), as a medium can revive the sense of place, particularly the place sense redefined by the experiences of post-colonial eco-social catastrophes, as a dialogical co-habitation of human-non-human environment in mainstream academia. This study, at first, moves beyond the Western perception of place as an isolated source of individual identity. It then engages with the recent scholarships on “eco-cosmopolitanism” and political ecology of the global South to show how the forces of (neo)colonial-capitalist modernity and consequent eco-social crises in Pakistan were registered both in Khan’s experimental narrative content and style. This study argues that Khan’s novel employs a “post-colonial eco-cosmopolitan” approach, focusing on the fluidity of place-based identities and the challenges of narrating a post-colonial sense of place in the zones of conflict, catastrophes, and crises. Finally, this study contends that when socio-ecological crises affect various aspects of life—body, home, society, and environment—local cultural practices like oral story-telling, folklore sharing, and traditional rituals serve as sources of collective memory, providing inner stability amid external turmoil.Keywords: Post-colonial socio-ecological catastrophessense of placepakistanpolitical ecology of global southpost-colonial eco-cosmopolitanism Disclosure StatementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Additional informationNotes on contributorsNobonita RakshitNobonita Rakshit is a Research Scholar in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India. Her research interests include postcolonial studies, environmental humanities, disaster narratives, and South Asian literature.Rashmi GaurRashmi Gaur is a Professor of English in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India. Her research interests include Professional Communication, Culture and Gender theories, Modern Fiction, and Indian Writing.Rahul K. GairolaRahul K. Gairola is The Krishna Somers Senior Lecturer in English and Postcolonial Literature and a Fellow of the Asia Research Center at Murdoch University, Western Australia. His research interests include postcolonial studies, Asian cultural studies, comparative literature, screen and digital media, digital humanities, South Asian Studies, North American literature, Hindi cinema/Bollywood films, literary theory, cinema studies, critical theory, feminist and queer theory, other literatures in English, Indian literature, popular and genre literature, history of empires, and imperialism and colonialism.
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Pub Date : 2023-11-07DOI: 10.1080/02759527.2023.2277967
Praggnaparamita Biswas, Anup Shekhar Chakraborty
AbstractThe study looks into the vexed issues of caste and marginality in the context of the Partition experience in South Asia. The discussion takes clues from Manoranjan Byapari’s Interrogating My Chandal Life (English trans. Shipra Mukherjee, 2018). The paper situates itself between two significant strands - one the Partition and the second, the Dalit consciousness to critically examine the positionality of the Namashudra refugees during/post Partition resettlement in Bengal. The discussion treats Byapari’s text as an auto-ethnographic account that introduces “Chandal aesthetics,” Namashudrayan to foreground the contested issues of subalternity, religiosity, spatiality and socio-political identity in a post-partition South Asia. The Dalit voice, represented through the writings of Byapari, records the micro-narratives of the lower-caste/subalterns/marginalized people who have been denied spaces in nationalist/majoritarian histories and their archives. The paper attempts to locate the largely silent zones of Bengal’s partition histories and their intergenerational shared memories and re-representations that have occluded, evaded and circumvented the questions of caste and, specifically, the Dalit experience.Keywords: Partition Dalit narratives Namashudra Disclosure StatementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 The term “two Bengals” alludes to the historical geographical expanse known as Bengal, which underwent a partition in South Asia, resulting in the formation of East Bengal (now recognized as Bangladesh) and West Bengal (a constituent of India). The partition of British India in 1947 entailed the division of the region into two distinct nations, namely India and Pakistan, predicated upon religious demarcations.2 The etymology of the word ‘nama’ carries a mythological reference. Sage Kashyap’s son Namas was married to Ruchi’s daughter Sulochana and they had two sons from this wedlock. But due to the carelessness of Namas Muni, his sons were not endowed with sacred thread for attaining the Brahminhood in their 14th years of birth and thus remain shudra.Yet their parental progeny, they were respectable but considered as Namashudras and thus the tribe created.3 Byapari as a Rickshaw-puller met the renowned writer Mahasweta Devi and asked the meaning of “jijibisha” he came across in a book. Later his collection of short stories published in 2005 titled as Jijibishar Golpo (See Byapari and Mukherjee Citation2007).4 Fourth World defines as an alternative literary and cultural discourse, which incorporates Dalits and Tribals of India to emphasize upon the marginalized social and literary identity of such poor and indigenous communities. It subverts the First/Second/Third World’s pedagogical aspects of knowledge. In respect of Dalit Literature, Bengal Dalit literary institution was established in 1992 and its preamble was “Chaturtha Dunia” (trans. Fourth World).Additional informationNotes on contributorsPraggnapara
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Pub Date : 2023-11-07DOI: 10.1080/02759527.2023.2277969
Souvik Kar, Shuhita Bhattacharjee
AbstractThis article investigates the emergence of the Indian Partition of 1947 as an apocalyptic referent for twenty-first-century Indian cultural imagination of nuclear war with Pakistan, because of the Partition’s traumatic, genocidal imprint on the subcontinent’s cultural memory. We will show how performances of nuclear brinkmanship and nuclear anxiety in India have historically been and continue to be symptomatic of the themes the Partition has bequeathed to Indian literature—kinship, vengeance, identity, and mutual destruction on a gigantic scale. With reference to these themes, we will critically analyze three Indian cultural texts—Vikram Chandra’s novel Sacred Games (2006), its Netflix adaptation (2018–2019), and Sami Ahmad Khan’s novel Red Jihad (2012), especially focusing on the ways in which such texts attempt to feature and resolve Indo-Pakistani nuclear crises. We will demonstrate how these texts embody a cultural shift wherein the nuclear crisis ultimately underscores the urgency of healing Partition’s historical wounds.Keywords: Indian Partition studiesnuclear warSouth Asian Studiesliterary studiesnuclear cultureIndian nuclear fiction AcknowledgementsWe would like to thank Dr. Sami Ahmad Khan from the University of Oslo and Dr. Dibyadyuti Roy from the University of Leeds for their constructive feedback and encouragement throughout the writing of this article. We also thank the Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad for supporting our work.Disclosure StatementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 The idea, stemming from the Cold War, that the permanent and unprecedently wide scope of the destruction caused by nuclear explosions mean that a nuclear war between two nuclear-armed states would end up causing mutual suicide for both states (Sokolski Citation2004).2 Coined by the Russian literary critic Mikhail Bakhtin, the literary-theoretical idea of a kind of artistic writing in which the persona of the narrator as a dominant, overhanging voice recedes from the narration and characters occupy centre stage with their unique voices: the effect is that of reading a writing with many authors instead of a single one (Bakhtin Citation1984).Additional informationNotes on contributorsSouvik KarSouvik Kar is a Ph.D. Candidate researching Postcolonial Atomic Cultures at the Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, India. His research interests include Nuclear Cultures, Energy Humanities, Science Fiction, and South Asian Studies. Several concurrent projects on South Asian videogames, Posthumanism, and British Romanticism, continue to engage him.Shuhita BhattacharjeeShuhita Bhattacharjee earned her PhD from the University of Iowa and is assistant professor of English Literature and Gender Studies (Department of Liberal Arts) and Affiliated Professor of Design (Department of Design) at the Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad. Her research on Victorian literature, representations of gender and sexuality in po
摘要本文探讨了1947年印度分治的出现，作为21世纪印度文化对与巴基斯坦核战争的想象的启示录参考，因为该分治在次大陆的文化记忆中留下了创伤性的种族灭绝印记。我们将展示印度的核边缘政策和核焦虑的表现在历史上是如何并将继续成为印巴分治留给印度文学的主题的症状——亲属关系、复仇、身份认同和大规模的相互毁灭。针对这些主题，我们将批判性地分析三种印度文化文本——维克拉姆·钱德拉的小说《神圣游戏》(2006)、Netflix改编的小说《神圣游戏》(2018-2019)和萨米·艾哈迈德·汗的小说《红色圣战》(2012)，特别关注这些文本试图展现和解决印巴核危机的方式。我们将展示这些文本如何体现了一种文化转变，其中核危机最终强调了治愈分治历史创伤的紧迫性。关键字:印度分治研究核战争南亚研究文学研究核文化印度核小说致谢我们要感谢奥斯陆大学的Sami Ahmad Khan博士和利兹大学的Dibyadyuti Roy博士在本文写作过程中的建设性反馈和鼓励。我们还感谢海德拉巴印度理工学院对我们工作的支持。披露声明作者未报告潜在的利益冲突。注1这一观点源于冷战，认为核爆炸造成的永久性和空前广泛的破坏意味着两个拥有核武器的国家之间的核战争最终将导致两国的相互自杀(Sokolski Citation2004)由俄罗斯文学评论家米哈伊尔·巴赫金(Mikhail Bakhtin)提出的一种文学理论观点，即一种艺术写作，在这种写作中，叙述者的角色作为一种主导的、突出的声音从叙述中退去，人物以其独特的声音占据中心舞台:其效果是与许多作者一起阅读一篇文章，而不是单一的(巴赫金引用，1984)。作者简介:苏维克·卡尔，印度海得拉巴理工学院博士后，研究后殖民原子文化。他的研究兴趣包括核文化、能源人文、科幻小说和南亚研究。他同时参与了南亚电子游戏、后人类主义和英国浪漫主义等项目。Shuhita Bhattacharjee在爱荷华大学获得博士学位，是海德拉巴印度理工学院英国文学和性别研究(文科系)助理教授和设计(设计系)副教授。她对维多利亚时代文学、流行文化中性别和性的表现以及南亚侨民的研究已发表在《转型中的英国文学》、《19世纪性别研究》、《维多利亚时代通俗小说》、《南亚研究》和《美国幽默研究》以及劳特利奇和帕尔格雷夫文集中。她的第一部专著《后世俗理论》(《东方黑天鹅》)批判性地回顾了后世俗理论领域，并对19世纪和21世纪的文本进行了后世俗文学分析。她是Charles Wallace、Marcus Bach、Robert L. Platzman及Stanley奖学金的获得者。目前，她正在撰写第二部专著(劳特利奇出版社出版)，研究英国和盎格鲁-印度小说中对殖民偶像的最后的表现。在社会领域，她在国内和国际上从事性教育、与艾滋病毒有关的性别暴力和预防性骚扰的工作。
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