Abstract

This collection brings together nine essays, accompanied by nine short translations, that redraw the boundaries of literary histories both temporally and spatially. The essays, rooted in the humanities and informed by interdisciplinary area studies, explore multiple linkages between forms of print culture, linguistic identities and diverse vernacular literary spaces in colonial and post-colonial South Asia. The essays and translations foreground complex and politicised expressions of gender and genre in fictional and non-fictional print materials and thus draw meaningful connections between the vernacular and literature, the everyday and the marginals, and gender and sentiment. Collectively, they expand vernacular literary archives, canons and genealogies, and push us to theorise the nature of writing in South Asia.

摘要

该合集汇集了九篇论文，并附有九篇短译本，它们在时间和空间上都重新描绘了文学史的边界。这篇论文源于人文学科，并以跨学科领域研究为基础，探讨了殖民地和后殖民南亚的印刷文化形式，语言身份和多样化的本土文学空间之间的多重联系。论文和翻译着重于虚构和非虚构印刷品中性别和体裁的复杂和政治化表达，从而在白话和文学，日常和边缘人群以及性别和情感之间建立了有意义的联系。他们共同扩大了白话文学档案，经典和家谱，并推动我们对南亚写作的本质进行理论化。