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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2019) 39 (1): 63–67.
Published: 01 May 2019
...Francesca Orsini; Sara Marzagora; Karima Laachir Abstract Against the nationalist production of monolingual literary histories, this introduction to the special section “Multilingual Locals” urges literary and intellectual historians to “place languages back into dialogue.” Colonialism did...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2019) 39 (1): 82–95.
Published: 01 May 2019
... us to consider how early modern forms of multilingual association may shape literary practices into the colonial era and beyond—indeed, socio-literary practices that form the everyday life of textual communities within certain locales. Rather than focus on fixed markers, this essay examines acts...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2019) 39 (1): 68–81.
Published: 01 May 2019
..., nostalgic view we approach literary culture in Awadh prospectively and multilingually and broaden our lens to consider not just the capitals, Faizabad and Lucknow, but also the qasbas (small towns), the small rural courts, the nearby growing city of Banaras, and the colonial capital of Calcutta, a different...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2021) 41 (3): 485–498.
Published: 01 December 2021
...Sravanthi Kollu Abstract The multilingual turn in literary studies emphasizes the fairly recent emergence of a monolingual attachment to language. While this rightly calls into question the academic focus on monolingual competencies and offers a substantial area of inquiry for scholars working...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2019) 39 (1): 96–110.
Published: 01 May 2019
...Richard David Williams Abstract In early modern North India, knowledge systems developed simultaneously in multiple “classical” and “vernacular” languages. This article examines the processes of multilingual knowledge transmission through an analysis of a Brajbhasha (classical Hindi) music treatise...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (2): 381–387.
Published: 01 August 2022
..., as they are largely understood today—theorized and created new knowledge systems to define their four-hundred-year-old Marwari literary culture. Keeping up with the theoreticians of Brajbhasha who blended Vaishnava bhakti (devotion) with poetic theory, the Rajasthani scholars placed their work in a multilingual...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2003) 23 (1-2): 18–31.
Published: 01 August 2003
... back,”8 languages, at the same time that the institutional organi- such models are indifferent to comparative literature’s zation of literary studies continues to divide and con- sine qua non principle of multilingualism, which is seen quer the world conceptually. here...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2018) 38 (1): 170–180.
Published: 01 May 2018
... Angelika Hess Michael Pfeiffer Judith Sagaster Börte eds. Ghazal as World Literature, vol. 2, From a Literary Genre to a Great Tradition: The Ottoman Gazel in Context . Beirut : Ergon Verlag , 2006 . Orsini Francesca . “ How to Do Multilingual Literary History? Lessons from...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2019) 39 (1): 1–2.
Published: 01 May 2019
... to creatively resuscitate their own economic and political interests. Next, we turn to the section titled “Multilingual Locals,” where authors address shifting hierarchies between a formal “high” language and colloquial “low” language in precolonial settings. This also extends and elaborates...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2010) 30 (1): 159–160.
Published: 01 May 2010
... and Irony in Francophone Migration and Gender in Morocco in Gender and Migration Multilingualism, Cultural Identity, and Educa and Identity, Cultural Multilingualism...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2004) 24 (2): 19–21.
Published: 01 August 2004
..., and more specifically in terms of sheer number of texts and centuries of un- with respect to systematic forms of thought, under- broken multilingual literacy, than all of Greek and Latin standing how Western knowledge and imagination won and medieval European culture combined. In recognition the day...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2012) 32 (3): 465–469.
Published: 01 December 2012
... studies in How, then, is comparative literature dif- these multilingual, pluricultural areas cannot ferent from cultural studies? There are marked but be comparative in nature and method. Vari- di erences. To begin with, though, comparative...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2003) 23 (1-2): 32–40.
Published: 01 August 2003
..., has creased, more Maghrebians than ever before were ex- been a dilemma of Francophone writers from many posed to French. Today, multilingual Maghrebians fre- regions, as well as a central theme of the critical litera- quently use different languages in different social ture devoted to their work...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2019) 39 (2): 231–232.
Published: 01 August 2019
... Copyright © 2019 by Duke University Press 2019 In our last issue we focused on political imagination and social power by examining the potentials and limits of political society, multilingual literary traditions, the technology of motor vehicles, and memory and memorialization...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (2): 362–369.
Published: 01 August 2022
....” 4. Singh, “Religious Identity and the Vernacularization,” 20 . 5. Pollock, Language of the Gods , 511 . 6. Kaviraj, Imaginary Institution of India , 193 . 7. Orsini, “How to Do Multilingual Literary History?,” 225 . 8. I explore the battle of Bhangani in relation...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2023) 43 (3): 398–411.
Published: 01 December 2023
... migrant scholars to enjoy the favor of King Abdulaziz (1876–1953). Al-Khujandi's erudition, his wide travels, and his multilingualism presented him as a promising candidate to join the ranks of figures helping the Saudi state bolster its legitimacy by drawing on preexisting overlapping cosmopolitanisms...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (2): 295–308.
Published: 01 August 2020
... was born in the Muslim princely state of Bhopal in central India, but traveled far and wide in his quest for knowledge through higher studies at Allahabad, Aligarh, Oxford, and Berlin and thus became a committed educationist and prolific translator with a transnational and multilingual cosmopolitan...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2002) 22 (1-2): 100–111.
Published: 01 August 2002
... of incorporating Qur’anic verses into his C.E the phenomenon of multilingual compositions in West- poetry is particularly striking in that he rarely, if at all, uses ern and Islamic literary traditions. I also discussed the terms them as “proof-texts” in the same vein as the other writers and usage...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2017) 37 (3): 491–493.
Published: 01 December 2017
... of Persian, he argues, were less concerned about the infiltration into Persian of Indian words than they were worried about damage to a Persian that was cosmopolitan. Subah Dayal s essay poses an important ques- tion in the context of undertaking multilingual histories of early modern South Asia: in what lan...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2006) 26 (1): 83–86.
Published: 01 May 2006
... of the Jewish community. The subtitle of my memoir is A Memoir of Language —and I need to explain this just to give a sense of context, before I present two brief passages from it below; the goal was to use the language as a tool. That is because I grew up in a multilingual environment, in which Yid...