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Overview"In an interconnected world, literature moves through transnational networks, crosses borders, and bridges diverse cultures. In these ways, literature can bring people closer together. Today, as hopes for globalization wane and exclusionary nationalism is on the march, can literature still offer new ways of relating with others? Comparative literature has long been under the spell of circulation, contact, connectivity, and mobility-what if it instead sought out their antitheses? States of Disconnect examines the breakdown of transnationalism through readings of literary texts that express aversion to pairing ideas of China and India. Focusing on practices of comparison, Adhira Mangalagiri considers how these texts articulate the undesirability or impossibility of relating with national others, tracing portrayals of violence, silence, and distance. She proposes the concept of ""disconnect"": a crisis of transnationalism perceptible in moments when a connection is severed, interrupted, or disavowed. Despite their apparent insularity, texts of disconnect offer possibilities for relating ethically across national borders while resisting both narrow nationalisms and globalized habits of thought. Reading a variety of largely untranslated twentieth-century Chinese and Hindi short stories, novels, and poems, Mangalagiri develops three new strategies for comparison-friction, ellipses, and contingency-that together comprise a critical vocabulary of disconnect. Foregrounding transnationalism's discontents, States of Disconnect offers a different path by which literary texts can cultivate a critical sensibility for making sense of a world rife with division." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Adhira MangalagiriPublisher: Columbia University Press Imprint: Columbia University Press ISBN: 9780231205689ISBN 10: 0231205686 Pages: 296 Publication Date: 24 January 2023 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsNote on Transliteration and Translation Introduction 1. Anatomy of Antagonism: The Indian Policeman in Chinese Literature 2. Revolution Redux: Agyeya's China Stories 3. Dialogue and Its Discontents: 1950s Cultural Diplomacy Untold 4. Word and World in Crisis: Hindi Texts of 1962 5. On Correspondence: Lu Xun and Premchand Conclusion: A Comparatist's Guide to Disconnect Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography IndexReviewsStates of Disconnect is a pioneering work of scholarship. It shifts the gaze to cultural production and emphasizes the ways in which the acts of writing and reading in both countries, and the views each developed of the other in these cultural practices, did not necessarily follow the prevailing political vicissitudes of the transnational relationship. -- Laura Brueck, author of <i>Writing Resistance: The Rhetorical Imagination of Hindi Dalit Literature</i> Author InformationAdhira Mangalagiri is a lecturer in the Department of Comparative Literature at Queen Mary University of London. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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