Bakhtinian Explorations of Indian Culture Pluralism Dogma and Dialogue Through History 1st Edition by Lakshmi Bandlamudi 9811063133 9789811063138

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• ISBN 10: 9811063133
• ISBN 13: 9789811063138
• Author: Lakshmi Bandlamudi

This volume, an important contribution to dialogic and Bakhtin studies, shows the natural fit between Bakhtin’s ideas and the pluralistic culture of India to a global academic audience. It is premised on the fact that long before principles of dialogism took shape in the Western world, these ideas, though not labelled as such, were an integral part of intellectual histories in India. Bakhtin’s ideas and intellectual traditions of India stand under the same banner of plurality, open-endedness and diversity of languages and social speech types and, therefore, the affinity between the thinker and the culture seems natural. Rather than being a mechanical import of Bakhtin’s ideas, it is an occasion to reclaim, reactivate and reenergize inherent dialogicality in the Indian cultural, historical and philosophical histories.  Bakhtin is not an incidental figure, for he offers precise analytical tools to make sense of the incredibly complex differences at every level in the cultural life of India.

Table of contents:

1. Introduction: Intellectual Traditions of India in Dialogue with Mikhail Bakhtin

2. From Indo-European Philology to the Bakhtin Circle

3. Carnival and Transgression in India: Towards a Global Spring?

4. The Rule of Freedom: Rabelais, Bakhtin, Abhinavagupta

5. Dancing in the Sky of Consciousness: Architectonics and Answerability in the Aesthetic Vision of Malavika Sarukkai

6. The Dialogicity of Travel: Nanak’s Udasis

7. “You Yourself Are a Mosque with Ten Doors”: A Bakhtinian Reading of the Dialogic Tradition in Indian Poetry

8. Animal as Hero: Narrative Dynamics of Alterity and Answerability in the Elephant Stories of Aithihyamala

9. Translation as Dialogue: A Perspective

10. A Bakhtinian View of the Development of the Novelistic Genre in India

11. Dialoguing the Web: Digital Technologies and Pedagogy

12. Talking Texts, Writing Memory: A Bakhtinian Reading of Meena Alexander’s Fault Lines

13. Exploring Bakhtin’s Dialogic Potential in Self, Culture, and History: A Study of V.S. Naipaul’s India: A Million Mutinies Now

14. Dead Text or Living Consciousnesses? Bakhtinian Poetics in the Francophone African Context

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