NARRATIVE STRATEGIES (ESSAYS ON SOUTH ASIAN LITERATURE AND FILM)

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Item Code: IDD637
Author: Edited By Vasudha Dalmia, Theo Damsteegt
Publisher: Oxford University Press, New Delhi
Edition: 2003
ISBN: 0195667131
Pages: 275
Cover: Paperback
Other Details 8.7" X 5.7"
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About the Book:

The fifteen essays collected in this volume present analyses of a wide variety of modern and pre-modern South Asian narratives in Bengali, Hindi, Punjabi, Tamil, and Urdu. While classics such as Hir Varis Shah, Krittibasa's Ramayana, Ruswa's Umrao Jan Ada, and Phalke's pioneering film venture Raja Harischandra come under discussion, texts less widely known, though equally significant, are also analysed in vivid detail. A wide range of analytical methods are applied, including narratology, reception theory, genre theories, rhetoric, and the theory of transtextuality. Though the essays focus on applied analysis, an effort has been made in each to explain the basic tenets of the methods used. These methods bring into focus such vital issues as the uses of tradition, the renegotiation of gender roles, and shifts in genre and literary categories.

This volume is a significant contribution to the study of South Asian narratives with its constructive and sensitive application of diverse critical approaches to its subject area and its explicit awareness of methodology in the analysis of such narratives. The essays offer a wide range of engaging and often challenging interpretations of the narratives studied which will interest scholars and attract general readers.

(Note: Jacket Photograph: Scene from the film Raja Harischandra, by Phalke Courtesy National Film Archive of India, Pune.)

About the Author:

Vasudha Dalmia is Professor of Hindi, Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley. Her previous publications include The Nationalization of Hindu Traditions: Bharatendu Harischandra and Nineteenth-century Banaras and Representing Hinduism: The Construction of Religious Traditions and National Identity.

Theo Damsteegt is Reader in Hindi, University of Leiden. He has published in 1997 Giriraj Kisor's Yatraem: A Hindi Novel Analysed.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Editor's Introduction

TRADITION REINTERPRETED
Philippe Benoit
    Rewriting Valmiki: Krittibasa Ramayana as a hypertext

Denis Matringe
    Hir Varis Shah, a story retold

Mariola Offredi
    Narrating the City: Bahti Ganga

Brigitte Schulze
    The first cinematic Pauranik kathanak

Alain Desoulieres
    The three lives of Umrao Jan Ada

NEGOTIATING GENDER
Martin Christof-Fuchsle
    Questioning norms in Krishna Sobti's Mitro marjani

Srilata Raman
    The Face Behind the Mask: Ambai on women

Cecilia Cossio
    Mani Kaul's Uski roti: giving silence a voice

Annie Montaut
    A story of tyag: coping with liminality

Theo Damsteegt
    Struggling with masculinity: Ravindra Kaliya's "Maim"

GENRE AND LITERARY CATEGORIES
Vasudha Dalmia
    A novel moment in Hindi: Pariksha guru

Francesca Orsini
    Reading a social romance: Cand hasinom ke khatut

Barbara Lotz
    Romantic allegory and progressive criticism

Angelika Malinar
    The artist as autobiographer: Sekhar ek jivani

Christina Oesterheld
    "Ek kahani, ganga jamni": satirizing secularity

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