A Cultural Poetics of Bhasha Literatures

In Theory and Practice

Edited by : E. V. Ramakrishnan

9789354429873

Orient BlackSwan 2024

Language: English

384 Pages

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About the Book

This volume explores the inter-relations between languages, literatures and cultures in the context of South Asia in general and India in particular. The essays examine the cultural practices of authors, critics, commentators and translators in relation to their multiple vernacular traditions with their disparate histories, to bring out the defining features of a cultural poetics of bhasha literatures as it has evolved over the centuries. The emphasis is on the ideas of circulation, negotiation, translation and exchange without any attempt to homogenise the diversities and differences into a narrative of uniformity. The essays also open up new ways of reading texts and ideas that address the dynamic interplay of socio-political and artistic-cultural contexts.

E. V. Ramakrishnan

E. V. Ramakrishnan is a well-known critic in Malayalam and English, besides being an Indian English poet and translator. He is a former Professor and Dean as well as Professor Emeritus of Central University of Gujarat. He has published critical works in Malayalam and English. Some of his publications include Indigenous Imaginaries: Literature, Moderniy, Region (2017), Bakhtinian Explorations of Indian Culture:Pluralism, Dialogue and Dogma through History (co-edited, 2019) and Literary Criticism in India (edited, 2021). He is a recipient of Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award (1995), Odakkuzhal Award (2018) and Kerala Sahitya Akademi’s Vilasini Award (2018). He received the Sahitya Akademi Award (2023) for his Malayalam work, Malayala Novelinte Deshakaalangal.

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