India after World History: Literature, Comparison, and Approaches to Globalization
India after World History: Literature, Comparison, and Approaches to Globalization
edited by Neilesh Bose
Amsterdam University Press, 2022 eISBN: 978-94-006-0432-2
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC
ABOUT THIS BOOK
In the twenty-first century, terms such as globalization, global, and world function as key words at the cusp of new frontiers in both historical writing and literary criticism. Practitioners of these disciplines may appear to be long time intimate lovers when seen from pre and early modern time periods, only to divorce with the coming of Anglophone world history in the twenty-first century. In recent years, works such as Martin Puchner’s The Written World, Maya Jasanoff’s The Dawn Watch, or the three novels that encompass Amitav Ghosh’s Ibis Trilogy, have rekindled a variant of history and literature’s embrace in a global register. This book probes recent scholarship concerning reflections on global history and world literature in the wake of these developments, with a primary focus on India as a site of extensive theoretical and empirical advances in both disciplinary locations. Inclusive of reflections on the meeting points of these disciplines as well as original research in areas such as Neo-Platonism in world history, histories of violence, and literary histories exploring indentured labor and capitalist transformation, the book offers reflections on conceptual advances in the study of globalization by placing global history and world literature in conversation.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Neilesh Bose is Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in Global and Comparative History at the University of Victoria.
REVIEWS
This is an innovative and welcome collection of essays on a challenging yet broad topic. The editor (and the Press) deserve praise for the interdisciplinary collaboration between scholars of literary studies and historical studies, which once published will certainly attract researchers in both fields and be a standard reference volume for future work. − Auritro Majumder, Associate Professor of English, University of Houston The edited volume is an important contribution to the new literature on world history and world literature. In particular, the essays bring together research at the intersections of global history and “world” literature. − Rama Mantena, Associate Professor of History and Global Asian Studies, University of Illinois at Chicago
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Table of Contents
Foreword Patrick Manning Chapter 1 Introduction: Globalization, Global, and World as Keywords for History and Literature Neilesh Bose Chapter 2 Can we have a global literary history? Alex Beecroft Chapter 3 World History Needs a Better Relationship with between Literary History Jonathan Arac Chapter 4 Re-Gifting Theory to Europe in Nineteenth-Century India Kedar Kulkarni Chapter 5 Violence, Indenture and Capitalist Realism in Amitav Ghosh’s Sea of Poppies Nandini Dhar Chapter 6 Vacant Villages: Policing Riots in Colonial India Radha Kumar Chapter 7 The Neoplatonic Renaissance from the Thames to the Ganges Jos Gommans Chapter 8 Radical Presentism J. Daniel Elam Chapter 9 Liberating World Literature: Alex La Guma in Exile Christopher Lee Afterword B. Venkat Mani