Please join us as we mark the release of The Oxford Handbook of Modern Indian Literatures. This landmark collected volume features forty-three chapters discussing topics from across the range of Indian literature from the nineteenth century to the present. The handbook aims to present the multilingual pathways through which modern Indian literature is constituted, with cutting-edge literary criticism from at least seventeen languages, and discussion of a wide range of traditional and new literary genres. Foregrounding themes such as modernity and modernism, gender, caste, diaspora, and political resistance, the handbook collects an array of perspectives on this vast topic.
The format of the discussion will include brief remarks from the editors of the handbook as well as two contributors, followed by open discussion. Lunch and refreshments will be provided.
With remarks from:
- Anjali Nerlekar (Rutgers University)
- Ulka Anjaria (Brandeis University)
- Gregory Goulding (University of Pennsylvania)
- Afsar Mohammad (University of Pennsylvania)
Co-sponsored by Rutgers - New Brunswick School of Arts and Sciences Department of African, Middle Eastern and South Asia Languages and Literatures
LOCATION: Golkin Room 223, Houston Hall, 3417 Spruce Street