Gebundenes Buch

China, India and Alternative Asian Modernities

Beschreibung

The essays in this volume contest the temporal and spatial divisions-between past and present, modernity and tradition, and Europe's progress and Asia's stasis-which the conventional narrative of modernity creates.

Autor

Sanjay Kumar is Professor of English at Banaras Hindu University. He is engaged in a comparative study of South Asian vernacular and folk literary and cultural traditions as sites of articulation of alternative modernities. Satya P. Mohanty is Professor of English at Cornell University. He has written and edited books on literary theory, minority studies, and colonial and postcolonial studies. Archana Kumar is Professor of English at Banaras Hindu University. She is currently engaged in research on women folk culture and has done extensive fieldwork in Banaras region to collect women folksongs. Raj Kumar is Professor of Hindi at Banaras Hindu University. He has extensively published research articles in reputed Hindi Journals and he is currently involved in a comprehensive project of retrieving, editing and interpreting rare vernacular texts and manuscripts of the early modern period.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge India
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. April 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 497g
• ISBN-13: 9781138339781
• ISBN-10: 1138339784
• Artikelnr.: 56236177