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

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Rao, D. Venkat (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: New Delhi : Springer India : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Σειρά: Sophia Studies in Cross-cultural Philosophy of Traditions and Cultures ; 6
• Θέματα: 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...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 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.