Society, Representations and Textuality: The Critical Interface brings together papers from various critical perspectives of Humanities and Social Sciences. The work (a) takes stock of the recent developments in critical theory and cultural studies; (b) studies the impact of these developments on the understanding of social reality and the human predicament in India; and (c) brings together scholars from North East India who are engaged in the project of understanding society and communities in their chosen intellectual practice. The book is the first-ever attempt to establish a dialogic encounter between critical practices in Humanities and Social sciences, hitherto considered to be autonomous in their own disciplinary boundaries. Further, the volume addresses issues of identity and autonomy of a multicultural India, particularly with reference to the interface between hegemonic cultures and politically and culturally persistent smaller communities. A significant feature of this book is its attempt to theorize and describe the myriad manifestations of the critical interface between society and literaryltural productions. INDICE: Foreword Introduction I: TEXTUALIZING SOCIAL DISCOURSE Science and Literature: A Study of Rabindranath Tagore's Music - Partha S Ghose Rabindranath Tagore's Philosophy of Art and Literature - Goutam Biswas The New Comparative Literature 'To Come' as a Critique of Cosmopolitanism - Sourav Kargupta Islam and Theodicy: A Critique of Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood's Theological Approach to Evil - Mohammad Maroof Shah Suturing of Selves Past: The Body in Revolution - Anirban Das Literature, Society and the Calling of Creative Public Spheres: Beyond Adaptation and Meditative Verbs of Transformations - Ananta Kumar Giri II: TEXTUALITY AND REPRESENTATIONS Enugula Veeraswamy's Journal: A Study - Mohan G Ramanan Kafka : Literature, Law and language - Franson Davis Manjali Understanding Tribal World View: A Painter's Perspective - Sujata Miri Reiterating Stereotypes: Assessing the Role of Women in Contemporary Jatra - Somdatta Mandal The Reinterpretation of Historical Trauma: Three Films about Partition - M K Raghavendra Identity and Politics in the Songs of Contemporary African American Women - Ellerine Diengdoh III: SOCIETIES, LITERATURE AND THE ETHNIC LIFE-WORLD Society and Literature in Northeast India: Articulating Marginality - Kailash C Baral Transcribing Orality: A Study of Ki Jingsneng Tymmen - Esther Syiem The Interface of Mizo Society and Literature - Margaret Ch Zama Folklore and Folk Traditions as a Cohesive in Nepali Community in India - Utpala Ghaley Sewa Singing The Nation: Pratima Pandey Barua, The Princess of the Lost Lores - Jyotirmoy Prodhani The Revenant in Some Urban Legends of Shillong - Desmond L Kharmawphlang Inter-Community Relations in Medieval Bengal As Reflected in Contemporary Bengali Vernacular Literature - Muhammad Shah Noorur Rahman Bibliography Index
- ISBN: 978-8-1321-0953-2
- Editorial: SAGE Publications Pvt. Ltd
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 406
- Fecha Publicación: 08/05/2013
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
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