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Cultures of memory in South Asia
orality, literacy and the problem of inheritance
Abstract
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 argument of this work is that the reflective and generative nodes of Indian cultural formations are located in the configurations of memory, the body and idiom (verbal and visual), where the body or the body complex becomes the performative effect and medium of articulated memories. This work advances its arguments by engaging with mnemocultures—cultures of memory—that survive and proliferate in speech and gesture. Drawing on Sanskrit and Telugu reflective sources, this work emphasizes the need to engage with cultural memory and the compositional modes of Indian reflective traditions. This important and original work focuses on the ruptured and stigmatized resources of heterogeneous Indian traditions and calls for critical humanities that move beyond the colonially configured received traditions. Cultures of Memory suggests the possibilities of transcultural critical humanities research and teaching initiatives from the Indian context in today’s academy.
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through the postcolonial abyss
pp.1-30
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-1698-8_1pp.33-58
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-1698-8_2mnemocultures and the question of inheritance
pp.59-88
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-1698-8_3mnemotextual inquiries and action knowledges
pp.91-130
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-1698-8_4disarticulations of the panchatantra
pp.131-157
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-1698-8_5kalos, philos and the vestiges of trace
pp.159-192
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-1698-8_6temporality, finitude and the modes of being in the itihasa
pp.195-231
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-1698-8_7the question of translation beyond the accursed zone
pp.233-269
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-1698-8_8memory, history and the archives of betrayal
pp.271-306
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-1698-8_9approaching critical humanities
pp.307-330
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-1698-8_10Publication details
Publisher: Springer
Place: Dordrecht
Year: 2014
Pages: 336
Series: Sophia Studies in Cross-cultural Philosophy of Traditions and Cultures
Series volume: 6
DOI: 10.1007/978-81-322-1698-8
ISBN (hardback): 978-81-322-1697-1
ISBN (digital): 978-81-322-1698-8
Full citation:
(2014) Cultures of memory in South Asia: orality, literacy and the problem of inheritance. Dordrecht, Springer.