Transcultural Humanities in South Asia Critical Essays on Literature and Culture

Introduction: transcultural humanities in South Asia: constrictions and connections / Waseem Anwar -- Humanities and hope / Bill Ashcroft -- Reimagining the humanities in a transcultural, post-truth world / Waqas Khwaja -- Post-cultural crises and the pandemic: what humanities? / Pradyumna S. Chauhan -- Beyond pillars and 'posts': transcultural humanities in South Asian literary studies / Feroza Jussawalla -- The role of transcultural humanities in times of crisis: Nadeem Aslam, Karan Mahajan, and Kashmir / John C. Hawley -- Is there life in this author? the living author and the business and importance of the humanities in South Asia / Mark J. Boone -- Sri Lankan literature and territoriality: the politics of literary criticism / Minoli Salgado -- [Trans]Cultural contact zones - a comparative study of archetypes: Persian Dastan and Greek epic tradition / Areeba Tayyab and Kashif Jamshaid -- Zones of every being: transcultural decolonisation and border thinking in contemporary India / Sayan Dey -- Languaging gesture/ gesturing language: a case for Rekhti poetry / Anisur Rahman -- Migration and the lesson of irony - on the political meaning of humanities: Saadat Hasan Manto and Sǿren Kierkegaard / Christine Habbard -- From post- to para-colonialism: (trans) national and cultural intersections in the post-1988 Pakistani anglophone fiction / Ali Usman Saleem -- Bhutan, western Arunachal Pradesh and modern state-making: literary-[trans]cultural mappings in Moi Akou Janam Lom and The Circle of Karma / Rajashree Bargohain and Tshering Thinley -- Migrant voices: an inquisition of the 'other' literature in Bangladesh / Rukhsana R. Chowdhury -- Beyond identity politics: transcultural and multiple allegiances in Parajuly's Land Where I Flee / Binod Paudyal -- Borders, belonging and diasporic aesthetics: tracing a transcultural conceptualisation of home in South Asian partition fiction / Nudrat Kamal -- The nation and its peripheries: borderland narratives and theories of liminality / Swatee Sinha and Anjali Gera Roy -- The long partition: reading some partition writers, transculturally / Tasneem Shahnaaz -- Reconstructing partition memories in the new millennium / Muneeza Shamsie -- Transcultural location of home in the Fiction of Gao Xingjian / Farida Chishti -- Memory in theatre, theatre in memory: experiencing the 'self/selves' in Swadeshi theatre (1905-1911) / Mimasha Pandit -- Locating the transcultural humanities in South Asian art: frescoes in the Lahore fort Seh-Dara / Kanwal Khalid -- Responses towards 9/11: caricatures and Pashto poetry from Pakistan / Nukhbah Taj Langah and Kamal ud Din -- 70 years of freedom of speech and expression in Pakistan: an intracultural analysis of press/ media in time and social processes / Altaf Ullah Khan -- Learning to be 'glocal': reflections on transgressive theories and transcultural flows in Pakistani ELT classroom and curriculum / Shirin Zubair -- Aging, literature and the humanities: transcultural perspectives on literary gerontology in South Asia / Saurav Kumar and Banibrata Mahanta -- A Hindu in Pakistan (2011) and A Mad Man's Diary (2014): distantiation, cultural transformation and redefinition of Pakistani Minorities / Wajiha Raza Rizvi -- Ethics and empathy in Sri Lankan representations of refugees / Maryse Jayasuriya -- Dark moon, bright crescent: Tagore in China / Cynthia Leenerts -- Transcultural dilemma in The Good Muslim: an analysis of Bangladesh through the competing visions of Maya and Sohail / Asif Iqbal -- Envisioning the role of South Asian gender and sexuality studies in the transcultural humanities / Kavita Daiya and Sreyoshi Sarkar -- The outsourcing of pregnancy: transnational surrogacy in contemporary South Asian literature / Jana Fedtke -- Socioreligious dichotomies and Indian re-feminism: a transcultural construct of goddesses and women in Sidhwa's and Mehta's Water / Syrrina Ahsan Ali Haque -- Memoirs, muslim women and transcultural symbolic solidarities / Naila Sahar -- Borders, women and South Asian transculturality / Nosheen Yousaf -- Afterword: transculturalism, the way forward... / Fawzia Afzal-Khan.