Society, Representation and Textuality: The Critical Interface/
Sukalpa Bhattacharjee; C Joshua Thomas
- SAGE, 2013.
Cover ; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Non-English Works; Foreword ; Introduction ; Section I: Textualizing Social Discourse ; 1 -- Science and Literature ; 2 -- Rabindranath Tagore's Philosophy of Art and Literature ; 3 -- The New Comparative Literature 'To Come' as a Critique of Cosmopolitanism ; 4 -- Islam and Theodicy ; 5 -- Suturing of Selves Past; 6 -- Literature, Society and the Calling of Creative Public Spheres ; Section II: Textuality and Representations ; 7 -- Enugula Veeraswamy's Journal ; 8 -- Kafka ; 9 -- Understanding Tribal World View ; 10 -- Reiterating Stereotypes? 11 -- The Reinterpretation of Historical Trauma 12 -- Identity and Politics in the Songs of Contemporary African American Women ; Section III: Societies, Literature and the Ethnic Life-World ; 13 -- Transcribing Orality ; 14 -- The Interface of Mizo Society and Literature ; 15 -- Folklore and Folk Traditions as a Cohesive in Nepali Community in India ; 16 -- Singing the Nation ; 17 -- The Revenant in Some Urban Legends of Shillong ; 18 -- Inter-Community Relations in Medieval Bengal as Reflected in Contemporary Bengali Vernacular Literature; Select Bibliography ; About the Editors and Contributors.