Format:
Online-Ressource (XVI, 336 p, online resource)
ISBN:
9788132216988
Series Statement:
Sophia Studies in Cross-cultural Philosophy of Traditions and Cultures 6
Content:
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 argument of this work is that the reflective and generative nodes of Indian cultural formations are located in the configurations of memory, the body and idiom (verbal and visual), where the body or the body complex becomes the performative effect and medium of articulated memories. This work advances its arguments by engaging with mnemocultures-cultures of memory-that survive and proliferate in speech and gesture. Drawing on Sanskrit and Telugu reflective sources, this work emphasizes the need to engage with cultural memory and the compositional modes of Indian reflective traditions. This important and original work focuses on the ruptured and stigmatized resources of heterogeneous Indian traditions and calls for critical humanities that move beyond the colonially configured received traditions. Cultures of Memory suggests the possibilities of transcultural critical humanities research and teaching initiatives from the Indian context in today’s academy
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Description based upon print version of record
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Chapter 1. Introduction: Through the Postcolonial AbyssPart I: Signatures of Memory -- Chapter 2. Configurations of Memory and the Work of Difference -- Chapter 3. Futures of the Past: Mnemocultures and the Question of Inheritance -- Part II: Mnemotexts of Reflection -- Chapter 4. Learning in the Double Bind: Mnemotextual Inquiries and Action Knowledge -- Chapter 5. Fables of Identity and Contingencies of Certainty: Disarticulations of the Panchatantra -- Chapter 6. Tanunapat: Kalos, Philos and the Vestiges of Trace -- Part III: Embodiments of Response -- Chapter 7. The Mahabharata Contretemps: Temporality, Finitude and the Modes of Being in the Itihasa -- Chapter 8. Responsive Receptions: The Question of Translation beyond the Accursed Zone -- Chapter 9. Listening to the Text looms of Vemana: Memory, History and the Archives of Betrayal -- Chapter 10. Close Ups: Approaching Critical Humanities.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9788132216971
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Venkat Rao, D. Cultures of memory in South Asia New Delhi [u.a.] : Springer, 2014 ISBN 8132216970
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9788132216971
Language:
English
Subjects:
Ethnology
Keywords:
Indien
;
Kolonialismus
;
Kollektives Gedächtnis
;
Literatur
;
Mündliche Überlieferung
;
Indien
;
Kultur
;
Mündliche Literatur
;
Kollektives Gedächtnis
;
Geschichte
DOI:
10.1007/978-81-322-1698-8
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