Questions: Today we are going to talk about Comparative Literature and its development in India in the last sixty years or perhaps even more, and that is the question we would like to begin with, whether to trace the beginning of Comparative Literature to 1956 when the first department was…
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Bassnett, Susan. Comparative Literature: A Critical Introduction, Oxford: Blackwell, 1993.
Bernheimer, C. (ed.) Comparative Literature in the Age of Multiculturalism. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 1995.
Chakravorty Spivak, Gayatri. Death Of A Discipline. New York: Columbia University…
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Subha Chakraborty Dasgupta: I was doing English Literature at Lady Brabourne College and I was not nearly satisfied. I was satisfied with what I was doing but I wanted to do something else, I wanted to engage with my literatures. I wanted to read Rabindranath, and read not just Rabindranath. I…
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Q.: Where do you think the relevance of Comparative Literature lies vis-a-vis the socio-cultural context of India?
Ganesh Devy: India is a multilingual country. The literary traditions in India have evolved through numerous languages. In our country, literature is closely linked with music, dance,…
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S. Satish Kumar
What is Area Studies? The simplest possible understanding of this term would suggest an in-depth study of a specific area. This is not, however, like asking one what their ‘area’ of interest or research is. The ‘area’ in ‘Area Studies’ more often than not refers to an actual physical geographic…
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Riti Sharma
What we must examine now are the ways and means through which our teaching of literature can be reorganised and how comparative literature may be related to the whole exercise. The study of literature can be a meaningful as well as legitimate academic exercise only when it is directed to our needs…
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