Books Without Borders, Volume 2 Perspectives from South Asia

by Fraser, Robert; Hammond, Mary

• ISBN13: 9780230210332
• ISBN10: 0230210333
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-08-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This volume concentrates on one of the world's oldest, and most buoyant, book cultures: South Asia. It examines the transition from manuscript to hand press, orality and performance, scripts and nationalism, libraries and copyright, and the recent international vogue for Europhone writers from the region.

Author Biography

MARY HAMMOND is Senior Lecturer, University of Southampton, UK. She is the author of Reading, Publishing and the Formation of Literary Taste in England, 1880-1914 and articles on writing, reading and publishing in the Victorian Edwardian periods. She is also co-editor of Publishing in the First World War: Essays in Book History.

ROBERT FRASER is Senior Research Fellow in Literature, Open University, UK. He is the author of books on Marcel Proust, Sir James Frazer, Victorian quest romance, print culture and various postcolonial literatures. A serial biographer, he is also a Fellow of both the Royal Society of Literature and the Royal Asiatic Society.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	p. ix
List of Tables	p. x
Notes on Contributors	p. xi
Acknowledgements	p. xiv
Introduction: From Palmyra to Print: The Book in South Asia	p. 1
The 'Book' in India: Orality, Manu-Script, Print (Post)Colonialism	p. 12
The Many Worlds of the Vernacular Book: Performance, Literacy and Print in Colonial Bengal	p. 34
Publishing and Translating Hafez Under Empire	p. 58
Missionary Writing and the Self-Fashioning of Assamese Cultural Identity in Colonial India: Revisiting the Past, Understanding the Present	p. 71
Futures Past: Books, Reading, Culture in the Age of Liberalization	p. 85
Book Circulation and Reader Responses in Colonial India	p. 100
Thacker, Spink and Company: Bookselling and Publishing in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Calcutta	p. 112
Two Paradigms of Literary Production: The Production, Circulation and Legal Status of Rudyard Kipling's Departmental Ditties and Indian Railway Library Texts	p. 125
War and the Colonial Book Trade: The Case of OUP India	p. 137
Between Bloomsbury and Gandhi? The Background to the Publication and Reception of Mulk Raj Anand's Untouchable	p. 151
Talking to India: The Literary Production and Consumption of Selected South Asian Anglophone Writers in Britain and the USA (19402-1950s)	p. 170
Salman Rushdie and Zulfikar Ghose in the Literary Marketplace	p. 181
Select Bibliography	p. 196
Index	p. 200
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