Cultures of Memory in South Asia Orality, Literacy and the Problem of Inheritance

Cultures of Memory in South Asia Orality, Literacy and the Problem of Inheritance / by D. Venkat Rao.

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 argum...

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Main Author: Rao, D. Venkat (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New Delhi : Springer India : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
Edition:1st ed. 2014.
Series:Sophia Studies in Cross-cultural Philosophy of Traditions and Cultures, 6
Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Philosophy, Asian.
Cultural studies.
Philology.
Linguistics.
Culture—Study and teaching.
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Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1. Introduction: Through the Postcolonial Abyss
  • Part 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.

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