... news, shape and produce what counts as knowledge in these Indian Anglophone novels. Both works evoke the failure of a poetics and politics of familial and extrafamilial relations to underline how death and the disappearance of women from families, from society, and from the news enable a comparison...

... context, the festival reinforced a national, linguistic, and religious division between India and Pakistan. It produced a category like “Moonlight’s Children” as an “other” to an imagined Indian literature that is confused with a post–Salman Rushdie postcolonial and global anglophone canon. However...

..., this essay reveals how an elongated temporal frame that accounts from non-European vantages—even in contemporary Anglophone literature—reorients not only what we consider the past and present of Indian Ocean worlds, but also how those pasts bear on the contemporary. [email protected] Copyright © 2022...

... and characterization into his English novels (for example, his 2020 One Arranged Murder Indianizes the Agatha Christie novel with a Punjabi wedding plot). His demotic English can then travel between vernacular Indian and Anglophone Indian spaces—as in the circuit from the English novel Five Point Someone...

... editors acting in the role of curators to a more standard corporate model. Ranasinha and Narayanan offer histories of the publishing industry in Britain and India, respectively, that focus on the rise of Anglophone writing by authors of Indian origin in both areas. Narayanan links the growth of “authentic...

... fully understand The Brief, Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao  without situating it in more than one literary system? It belongs to the tradition of ethnic American literature, but it is also equally indebted to Latin American dicta- tor novels written in Spanish, not to mention Japanese manga and Indian...

... “Emergence of Language and Literature,” with a chapter on “Language Use in West Indian Literature” by Maureen Warner-Lewis. Next, there is the section “Popular and Literate Cultures,” with a chapter on “The Institution of Literature” by Helen Tiffin. Finally, the section “Islands and Territories...

... “Emergence of Language and Literature,” with a chapter on “Language Use in West Indian Literature” by Maureen Warner-Lewis. Next, there is the section “Popular and Literate Cultures,” with a chapter on “The Institution of Literature” by Helen Tiffin. Finally, the section “Islands and Territories...

... (then at Yale University, now at Vanderbilt), who edited the Anglophone section. Within this sub- part we find the section “Emergence of Language and Literature,” with a chapter on “Language Use in West Indian Literature” by Maureen Warner-Lewis. Next, there is the section “Popular and Literate Cultures...

... “Emergence of Language and Literature,” with a chapter on “Language Use in West Indian Literature” by Maureen Warner-Lewis. Next, there is the section “Popular and Literate Cultures,” with a chapter on “The Institution of Literature” by Helen Tiffin. Finally, the section “Islands and Territories...

... (then at Yale University, now at Vanderbilt), who edited the Anglophone section. Within this sub- part we find the section “Emergence of Language and Literature,” with a chapter on “Language Use in West Indian Literature” by Maureen Warner-Lewis. Next, there is the section “Popular and Literate Cultures...

... creolization of themselves” (180). Arguably the book’s greatest strength is Ramazani’s deep familiarity with the var- ied poetic landscapes of Britain and its numerous former colonies on the Indian sub- continent, in Africa, and throughout the Caribbean, a familiarity which lends weight to his attempt...

... former colonies on the Indian sub- continent, in Africa, and throughout the Caribbean, a familiarity which lends weight to his attempt to theorize a globalized approach to modern and contemporary poetry in English. However, despite a genuine effort, A Transnational Poetics displays comparatively...

... former colonies on the Indian sub- continent, in Africa, and throughout the Caribbean, a familiarity which lends weight to his attempt to theorize a globalized approach to modern and contemporary poetry in English. However, despite a genuine effort, A Transnational Poetics displays comparatively...

... to mediate Tagore’s engagements with Indian nationalism (through his debate with Gandhi), and through the cultivation of pan-Asian print networks that functionally seek to exclude the West. Neologism is also the through line through which Lahiri links together these three, somewhat disparate case studies...

...Madhumita Lahiri Abstract Whereas most modern South Asian vernacular literatures emerged in concert with nationalism, Tagore moved Bengali literature to its contemporary colloquial form even as he became ever more critical of Indian nationalism. This essay follows Tagore’s anti-nationalist and pan...

... of these novels gives itself away in the moments of heightened anxieties of the elite classes losing their inherited economic status due to world-historical events in the Indian Ocean such as the Opium Wars. While this narrative practice enables the emplotment of Asian wealth accumulation on the Indian Ocean’s...

... into the Indian vernacular now understood as Urdu, while some of Wali’s couplets from his dīvān (published in 1700) are direct responses to Hafiz. 9 Wali, in fact, stands out in particular as the inaugurator of the “Age of Urdu Ghazal”; as Imre Bangha notes, before the success of Wali’s dīvān...

.... Indian COMPARATIVE LITERATURE/292 alcedo which is a kind of unicorn, many Turkish and other foreign shoes and boots, a sea-parrot, a toad-fish, an elk’s hoof with three claws . . . a human bone weighing 42 lbs, Indian arrows such as are used by executioners in the West Indies—when a man...

... language, by contrast, was “a subject on which there existed the widest divergence of opinion,” observed the Indian Magazine in an essay titled “Remarks on the Malay Language and Literature” (1886). Synthesizing various contemporary scholarly opinions on Malay, the magazine noted that while some “praise...