{"product_id":"beyond-english","title":"Beyond English","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHonorable Mention, Harry Levin Prize, 2022 (American Comparative Literature Association)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBeyond English: World Literature and India \u003c\/i\u003eradically alters the debates on world literature that hinge on the model of circulation and global capital by deeply engaging with the idea of the world and world-making in South Asia. Tiwari argues that Indic words for world (\u003ci\u003evishva, jagat, sansar\u003c\/i\u003e) offer a nuanced understanding of world literature that is antithetical to a commodified and standardized monolingual globe. She develops a comparative study of the concept of “world literature” (\u003ci\u003evishva sahitya\u003c\/i\u003e) in Rabindranath Tagore’s works, the desire for a new world in the lyrics of the Hindi shadowism (\u003ci\u003echhayavaad\u003c\/i\u003e) poets, and world-making in Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai’s \u003ci\u003eChemmeen \u003c\/i\u003e(1956) and Arundhati Roy’s \u003ci\u003eThe God of Small Things \u003c\/i\u003e(1997).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBy emphasizing the centrality of “literature” (\u003ci\u003esahitya\u003c\/i\u003e) through a close reading of texts, Tiwari orients world literature toward comparative literature and comparative literature toward a worldliness that is receptive to the poetics of a world in its original language and in translation.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing Plc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54223164014936,"sku":"9781501386879","price":38.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781501386879_e9a9d6a4-3244-431b-bf77-5561a95993db.jpg?v=1770273942","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/beyond-english","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}