Society Representation and Textuality: The Critical Interface
- 1st. ed
- New Delhi Sage 2013
- 274
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 literary or cultural productions.
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