{"product_id":"beyond-english-bhavya-tiwari-9781501386879","title":"Beyond English: World Literature and India","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHonorable Mention, Harry Levin Prize, 2022 (American Comparative Literature Association)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBeyond English: World Literature and India \u003c\/i\u003eradically alters the debates on world literature that hinge on the model of circulation and global capital by deeply engaging with the idea of the world and world-making in South Asia. Tiwari argues that Indic words for world (\u003ci\u003evishva, jagat, sansar\u003c\/i\u003e) offer a nuanced understanding of world literature that is antithetical to a commodified and standardized monolingual globe. She develops a comparative study of the concept of \"world literature\" (\u003ci\u003evishva sahitya\u003c\/i\u003e) in Rabindranath Tagore's works, the desire for a new world in the lyrics of the Hindi shadowism (\u003ci\u003echhayavaad\u003c\/i\u003e) poets, and world-making in Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai's \u003ci\u003eChemmeen \u003c\/i\u003e(1956) and Arundhati Roy's \u003ci\u003eThe God of Small Things \u003c\/i\u003e(1997). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBy emphasizing the centrality of \"literature\" (\u003ci\u003esahitya\u003c\/i\u003e) through a close reading of texts, Tiwari orients world literature toward comparative literature and comparative literature toward a worldliness that is receptive to the poetics of a world in its original language and in translation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Bhavya Tiwari\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1501386875\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781501386879\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Academic\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/29\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.63lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.44d","brand":"Bhavya Tiwari","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44069454020863,"sku":"9781501386879","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a571c230-20ec-4380-b4da-8c9ab442d194.jpg?v=1685424799","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/beyond-english-bhavya-tiwari-9781501386879","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}