Performative Reflections of Indian Traditions: Towards a Liveable Learning - Couverture souple

Rao, D. Venkat

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 9811623937 ISBN 13 : 9789811623936

Editeur : Springer, 2022

Synopsis

This book focuses on the cohering elements across various texts and traditions of India. It engages with several significant works from the Sanskrit tradition and emphasizes the need to move beyond colonial and postcolonial engagements with the enduring cultural pasts of India. The chapters are grouped in three main parts: accented rhythms, dispersed mnemoscapes and inventive iterations. It addresses questions such as: what enabled cultural communication across very divergent geographical, temporal, locational contexts and among different cultural formations of India over millennia? What is this shareable impulse that pulsates across the domains of dance, sculpture, painting, poetry, dharma, music, medicine, the lore of rivers and the epics?  It explains how modern Indian languages and especially their creative and reflective nodes are unthinkable without the intricately woven textures of these interfaces and their responsive receptions. This book is ofinterest to philosophers, humanities students, researchers and professors as well as people interested in exploring alternatives to European traditions of thought without an alibi.  

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

D. Venkat Rao teaches at the English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad. His recent work is Critical Humanities from India: Contexts, Issues, Futures (Routledge, 2018), and his other publications include Cultures of Memory in South Asia (Springer, 2014) and a translation into English of a Telugu intellectual autobiography called The Last Brahmin (2007, 2012 and 2017). His areas of interest include literary and cultural studies, image studies, epic traditions, visual cultures, comparative thought, translation, Indian traditions and mnemocultures. He has designed several courses interfacing areas of culture, technology and literary and cultural studies.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Springer
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 9811623937
• ISBN 13: 9789811623936
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 292
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