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

• Main Author: Rao, D. Venkat (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New Delhi : Springer India : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: Sophia Studies in Cross-cultural Philosophy of Traditions and Cultures ; 6
• Subjects: Philosophy.; Culture > Study and teaching.; Philosophy, Asian.; Philology.; Linguistics.; Cultural studies.; Non-Western Philosophy.; Cultural Studies.; Language and Literature.; Regional and Cultural Studies.

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...