Overview
- Documents the polyphonic nature of multilingual, multicultural Indian culture through essays on culture studies
- Brings out the relevance of the Bakhtinian concept of dialogism in understanding the complex social ethos of India
- Demonstrates new approaches based on concepts such as carnival and dialogism in diverse areas such as language teaching, communication studies, film studies, women's studies and performance studies
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
Keywords
- translation as dialogue
- dialogism
- Indian heterodoxy
- Indo-European philology
- Rabelais and Bakhtin
- dialogicality in Indian ethos
- Bakhtin’s thought on carnival
- philosophical perspectives of Abhinavagupta
- Bakhtinian reading of Indian literary texts
- aesthetics in Bakhtin’s theory of dialogism
- Malavika Sarukkai
- Meena Alexander’s Fault Lines
- Bakhtinian reading of Naipaul
About this book
This volume, an important contribution to dialogic and Bakhtin studies, shows the natural fit between Bakhtin’s ideas and the pluralistic culture of India to a global academic audience. It is premised on the fact that long before principles of dialogism took shape in the Western world, these ideas, though not labelled as such, were an integral part of intellectual histories in India. Bakhtin’s ideas and intellectual traditions of India stand under the same banner of plurality, open-endedness and diversity of languages and social speech types and, therefore, the affinity between the thinker and the culture seems natural. Rather than being a mechanical import of Bakhtin’s ideas, it is an occasion to reclaim, reactivate and reenergize inherent dialogicality in the Indian cultural, historical and philosophical histories.
Bakhtin is not an incidental figure, for he offers precise analytical tools to make sense of the incredibly complex differences at every level in the cultural life of India. Indian heterodoxy lends well to a Bakhtinian reading and analysis and the papers herein attest to this. The papers range from how ideas from Indo-European philology reached Bakhtin through a circuitous route, to responses to Bakhtin’s thought on the carnival from the philosophical perspectives of Abhinavagupta, to a Bakhtinian reading of literary texts from India. The volume also includes an essay on ‘translation as dialogue’ – an issue central to multilingual cultures – and on inherent dialogicality in the long intellectual traditions in India.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Lakshmi Bandlamudi is Professor of Psychology at LaGuardia Community College, City University of New York.
E.V. Ramakrishnan is Professor Emeritus, School of Language, Literature and Culture Studies at Central University of Gujarat, Gandhinagar, Gujarat. He is an authority on South Asian comparative literature, and a bilingual writer who has published poetry and literary criticism in Malayalam and English. Among his critical books in English are Interdisciplinary Alter-natives in Comparative Literature (co-edited, Sage, 2013), Locating Indian Literature: Texts, Traditions and Translations (Orient Blackswan, 2011) and Making It New: Modernism in Malayalam, Marathi and Hindi Poetry (IIAS, Shimla, 1995). He has three volumes of poetry in English: Being Elsewhere in Myself (1980), A Python in a Snake Park (1994), and Terms of Seeing: New and Selected Poems (2006). He has over 150 published research papers in the areas of comparative literature, translation studies, South Asian studies, marginality studies and post-colonial literatures.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Bakhtinian Explorations of Indian Culture
Book Subtitle: Pluralism, Dogma and Dialogue Through History
Editors: Lakshmi Bandlamudi, E. V. Ramakrishnan
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6313-8
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-6312-1Published: 19 February 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-4853-2Published: 25 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-6313-8Published: 11 February 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 212
Topics: Cultural Studies, Non-Western Philosophy, Philology