02371nam a22002297a 450000500170000000800410001702000190005804000070007704100080008408200210009210000290011324500580014226000420020030000270024236500440026952015570031365000320187065000370190294200120193999900190195195201710197020251206115225.0220905b           ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a978-9386689450  cAL  aeng  223a820.43bRAMI  aE V Ramakrishnan9248141  aIndigenous imaginariesb: Literature region modernity  aDelhibOrient Blackswan Pvt Ltdc2017  axvii,274pbHBc22x14cm  2Englisha3496b760.50c₹d975.00e22%  aIndigenous Imaginaries argues for a redefinition of humanities from a comparative perspective anchored in the regional literary traditions of India. These indigenous traditions have negotiated hegemonic structures of power over centuries through creative engagements with differences and dogmas. The central argument here concerns the need to reconfigure epistemologies that do not accommodate the compulsions of creativity and critical reflection in a multilingual society.
Translation functions throughout this volume as the telos of a dialogic, interdisciplinary mode of cognition that questions the exclusivist claims of Euro-centric formulations of the literary. It argues that the act of reading becomes an act of recovery when prescriptive protocols and absolutist dictums are subverted through an intimate involvement with the subliminal, the unwritten and the inarticulate embedded in literary texts.
The book analyses the moral imaginaries that animate the works of Rabindranath Tagore, Vaikom Muhammad Basheer, Mahasweta Devi, Amitav Ghosh, Bhalchandra Nemade, Anand, M. Mukundan, N. S. Madhavan, Agha Shahid Ali and Jean Arasanayagam as evidences of revisionist ways of radical rethinking that can propel us in the direction of an interdisciplinary domain of comparative humanities. It acknowledges the emergent cosmologies of the Global South that demand a self-critical and self-reflexive idiom that questions the binaries of pre-modern/modern, modern/postmodern, ‘enlightened’ West/impoverished East, region/nation, and global/local.  aIndian English Prose956598  aIndian English Literature956599  2ddccBK  c224515d224515  00102ddc40708ENGaALbALd2022-08-11eBiblios Book Point, Surathkal, Mangalore-575014g760.50l0o820.43 RAMIp075971r2022-09-05 00:00:00v975.00w2022-09-05yBK