Whose Amnesia? Literary Modernity in Multilingual South Asia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13015331 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Francesca Orsini (0000-0003-3608-005X, Universidad de Londres, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 2 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 266-272 |
| Publication date | 2015-08-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2052-2614 • E-ISSN: 2052-2622 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/pli.2015.17 |
| OpenAlex | W2292435080 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 13 |
The debate over the impact of British colonialism and “colonial modernity” in India has hinged around questions of epistemic and aesthetic rupture. Whether in modern poetry, art, music, in practically every language and region intellectuals struggled with the artistic traditions they had inherited and condemned them as decadent and artificial. But this is only part of the story. If we widen the lens a little and consider print culture and orature more broadly, then vibrant regional print and performance cultures in a variety of Indian languages, and the publishing of earlier knowledge and aesthetic traditions belie the notion that English made India into a province of Europe, peripheral to London as the center of world literature. Yet nothing of this new fervor of journals, associations, literary debates, of new genres or theater and popular publishing, transpires in Anglo-Indian and English journals of the period, whose occlusion of the Indian-language stories produced ignorance, distaste, indifference—those “technologies of recognition” (Shu-Mei Shih) that produce “the West” as the agent of recognition and “the rest” as the object of recognition, in representation
Aesthetics · Art · Colonialism · Ignorance · Literature · Modernity · Nothing · Poetry · Political science · Politics · Publishing · Representation (politics · Anthropological Studies and Insights · History · Indian History and Philosophy · Law · Philosophy · South Asian Studies and Diaspora
The intimate enemy
Kipling’s India
Poetry of Kings
Singing the Classical, Voicing the Modern
Moral Conduct and Authority
Islam Translated
Introduction
Orientalism, Empire, and National Culture
Power in Print
How to do multilingual literary history? Lessons from fifteenth- and sixteenth-century north India
The Cosmopolitan Vernacular
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,38 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2023 (6) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |