Cultures of memory in South Asia : orality, literacy and the problem of inheritance
Cultures of Memory in South Asia reconfigures European representations of India as a paradigmatic extension of a classical reading, which posits the relation between text and context in a determined way. It explores the South Asian cultural response to European textual inheritances. The main argumen...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New Delhi :
Springer ,
c2014
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| Series: | Sophia studies in cross-cultural philosophy of traditions and cultures
v 6 |
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction : through the postcolonial abyss
- 2. Configurations of memory and the work of difference
- 3. Futures of the past : Mnemocultures and the question of inheritance
- 4. Learning in the double bind : Mnemotextual inquiries and action knowledge
- 5. Fables of identity and contingencies of certainty : disarticulations of the Panchatantra
- 6. Tanunapat : Kalos, Philos and the vestiges of trace
- 7. The Mahabharata contretemps : temporality, finitude and the modes of being in the Itihasa
- 8. Responsive receptions : the question of translation beyond the accursed zone
- 9. Listening to the text looms of Vemana : memory, history and the archives of betrayal
- 10. Close ups : approaching critical humanities