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Beyond English World Literature and India
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Beyond English: World Literature and India (Literatures as World Literature) Paperback – June 29, 2023
by Bhavya Tiwari (Author)
Honorable Mention, Harry Levin Prize, 2022 (American Comparative Literature Association) Beyond English: World Literature and India radically 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 (vishva, jagat, sansar) 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”(vishva sahitya) in Rabindranath Tagore’s works, the desire for a new world in the lyrics of the Hindi shadowism (chhayavaad)poets, and world-making in Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai’s Chemmeen (1956)and Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things (1997). By emphasizing the centrality of “literature” (sahitya) 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.
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Editorial Reviews
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“Tiwari has written a lively riposte to “world literature” mongering that is also a wide-ranging introduction to aspects of twentieth century Indian literature in various languages. Engaging the work of well-known writers like Rabindranath Tagore as well as of writers who should be better known, like the Hindi-language Chhayavaad poet Mahadevi Varma, Tiwari boldly changes the terrain over which the “world literature” debate is conducted by bringing to the fore critical terms through which the non-Anglophone writers that she examines themselves understood this debate. Through this decolonizing move she takes us not just beyond English but beyond “world literature” to what she intriguingly calls a “worldly comparative literature.”” ―S. Shankar, Chair and Professor, Department of English, University of Hawai'i at Manoa, USA, and author of Ghost in the Tamarind: A Novel
“Beyond English is a highly original and insightful analysis of world literature from a perspective deeply embedded in a major world literature. Refusing the hegemony of English still evident in many studies of global literature and focusing on Indian texts that invoke and imagine the world in far-reaching and provocative ways, Tiwari truly vernacularizes the concept of world literature to offer a fresh take on postcolonial studies, literary studies, and South Asian letters.” ―Ulka Anjaria, Professor of English, Brandeis University, USA, and author of Reading India Now: Contemporary Formations in Literature and Popular Culture
“Beyond English is an important contribution to the ongoing recalibration of relations among comparative, postcolonial, and world literary studies. Attending to the politics and poetics of translation within and across Indian languages, Bhavya Tiwari advances a worldly comparative literature that is open to the poetics of different worlds, as we savor 'the sap' of literary works both in the original and in translation. Exemplifying its own theme, Beyond English is itself a highly original translation across the conflictual worlds of literary studies today.” ―David Damrosch, Ernest Bernbaum Professor and Chair, Department of Comparative Literature, Director, Institute for World Literature, Harvard University, USA
About the Author
Bhavya Tiwari is Assistant Professor in the Department of Modern and Classical Languages at the University of Houston, USA.
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic (June 29, 2023)
Language : English
Paperback : 208 pages
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PROFESSOR’S COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS GOES ‘BEYOND ENGLISH’
Bhavya Tiwari’s new book garners national attention with honorable mention.
By Jillian Holden
February 9, 2024
Bhavya Tiwari, Ph.D.
India studies scholar Bhavya Tiwari, Ph.D., received an honorable mention for the Harry Levin Prize for her 2021 book “Beyond English: World Literature and India.” Awarded annually by the American Comparative Literature Association, this prestigious prize recognizes outstanding first books in the comparative literature discipline.
The Harry Levin Prize committee recognized Tiwari, an assistant professor in the department of modern and classical languages, for her exceptional work after rigorously reviewing nominated monographs by eminent scholars. These monographs can focus on varied literary traditions. Unlike other scholarly awards that focus on one language, literature or time period, the Harry Levin Prize has no such requirement, making the award highly competitive.
The committee hailed Tiwari’s monograph with the following citation:
Beyond English sets a new tone for comparing literatures in multilingual contexts through an engagement with authors, (self-) translators, poets, and film makers of the Global South. By bringing together literary traditions in Hindi, Bengali, and Malayalam in a rich comparative dialogue, Tiwari makes a compelling case for India as a comparative zone, as she identifies immense possibilities in the creation of readerships through translation. Focusing on the works of the Bengali Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore, the Hindi poet Mahadevi Varma, and the Malayalam novelist Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai, Tiwari demonstrates how multiple script- and speech-worlds can coexist through mutually enriching environments. In dialogue with, but without being solely indebted to well-known frameworks of postcolonial theory, Tiwari’s monograph demonstrates how thinkers and poets of the Global South can be read without too much emphasis on registers of the Global Anglophone.
In “Beyond English” Tiwari demonstrates how script and speech worlds can coexist through mutually beneficial environments. In dialogue with, but without being solely indebted to well-known frameworks of postcolonial theory, Tiwari’s monograph demonstrates how thinkers and poets of the Global South can be read without too much emphasis on registers of the Global Anglophone.
Striving to represent the elusive concept of world literature, “Beyond English” is part of Bloomsbury Academic’s “Literatures as World Literature” series. It recognizes that “World literature is so vast that any view of it cannot help but be partial; the question then becomes how to reduce the complex task of understanding and describing world literature.”
Fascinated with the evolution of language, Tiwari engages her students in learning various linguistic and literary traditions. She has published in prestigious avenues such as Comparative Literature Studies, Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, Journal of World Literature, Comparative Literature and Culture, The Routledge Companion to World Literature and A Companion to World Literature.
Tiwari maintains a robust research and teaching profile, including faculty advisor for the University of Houston Indian Student Association, the university’s representative for the American Institute of Indian Studies, and an undergraduate student mentor. She is also involved in FrameWorks, an Honors College program dedicated to elevating undergraduate critical inquiry in the interdisciplinary humanities through mentorship and peer-support, an annual symposium and a publication.
https://uh.edu/class/mcl/about/news/professors-comparative-analysis-goes-beyond-english/index.php
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College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
Modern and Classical Languages
PROFESSOR’S COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS GOES ‘BEYOND ENGLISH’
Bhavya Tiwari’s new book garners national attention with honorable mention.
By Jillian Holden
February 9, 2024
Bhavya Tiwari, Ph.D.
India studies scholar Bhavya Tiwari, Ph.D., received an honorable mention for the Harry Levin Prize for her 2021 book “Beyond English: World Literature and India.” Awarded annually by the American Comparative Literature Association, this prestigious prize recognizes outstanding first books in the comparative literature discipline.
The Harry Levin Prize committee recognized Tiwari, an assistant professor in the department of modern and classical languages, for her exceptional work after rigorously reviewing nominated monographs by eminent scholars. These monographs can focus on varied literary traditions. Unlike other scholarly awards that focus on one language, literature or time period, the Harry Levin Prize has no such requirement, making the award highly competitive.
The committee hailed Tiwari’s monograph with the following citation:
Beyond English sets a new tone for comparing literatures in multilingual contexts through an engagement with authors, (self-) translators, poets, and film makers of the Global South. By bringing together literary traditions in Hindi, Bengali, and Malayalam in a rich comparative dialogue, Tiwari makes a compelling case for India as a comparative zone, as she identifies immense possibilities in the creation of readerships through translation. Focusing on the works of the Bengali Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore, the Hindi poet Mahadevi Varma, and the Malayalam novelist Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai, Tiwari demonstrates how multiple script- and speech-worlds can coexist through mutually enriching environments. In dialogue with, but without being solely indebted to well-known frameworks of postcolonial theory, Tiwari’s monograph demonstrates how thinkers and poets of the Global South can be read without too much emphasis on registers of the Global Anglophone.
In “Beyond English” Tiwari demonstrates how script and speech worlds can coexist through mutually beneficial environments. In dialogue with, but without being solely indebted to well-known frameworks of postcolonial theory, Tiwari’s monograph demonstrates how thinkers and poets of the Global South can be read without too much emphasis on registers of the Global Anglophone.
Striving to represent the elusive concept of world literature, “Beyond English” is part of Bloomsbury Academic’s “Literatures as World Literature” series. It recognizes that “World literature is so vast that any view of it cannot help but be partial; the question then becomes how to reduce the complex task of understanding and describing world literature.”
Fascinated with the evolution of language, Tiwari engages her students in learning various linguistic and literary traditions. She has published in prestigious avenues such as Comparative Literature Studies, Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, Journal of World Literature, Comparative Literature and Culture, The Routledge Companion to World Literature and A Companion to World Literature.
Tiwari maintains a robust research and teaching profile, including faculty advisor for the University of Houston Indian Student Association, the university’s representative for the American Institute of Indian Studies, and an undergraduate student mentor. She is also involved in FrameWorks, an Honors College program dedicated to elevating undergraduate critical inquiry in the interdisciplinary humanities through mentorship and peer-support, an annual symposium and a publication.
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