Indian Satire in the Period of First Modernity

Horstmann, Monika [u.a.] [Hrsg.]:
Indian Satire in the Period of First Modernity / ed. by Monika Horstmann and Heidi Pauwels. - Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz, 2012. - X, 242 S. : Ill. - (Khoj ; 9)
ISBN 978-3-447-06537-5
EUR 48,00
DDC: 891.4; 809.700954
-- Angekündigt für Oktober 2012 --

Beschreibung
Satire reveals fault lines and incongruities between ideal and practice. Satirical discourse may be independent or invade and parody literary genres. It unmasks, ridicules and thereby deconstructs evil and hypocrisy to reconstruct honesty and reason, and at its farthest end may amount to moral utopia. The volume brings together essays on satire in the Indian vernaculars and in painting, mainly from the period of first modernity (ca. mid-fifteenth to mid-eighteenth century). These are framed by a contribution on the more ancient Tamil Jain satire and two essays on colonial satire. The volume edited by Monika Horstmann and Heidi Pauwels brings together essays on satire in the Indian vernaculars and in painting, mainly from the period of first modernity (ca. mid-fifteenth to mid-eighteenth century). These are framed by a contribution on the more ancient Tamil Jain satire and two essays on colonial satire. Among the contributing researchers are Purshottam Agrawal, France Bhattacharya, Ludwig Habighorst, Hans Harder, Monika Horstmann, Hephzibah Israel, Rohini Mokashi-Punekar, Anne E. Monius, Christina Oesterheld, and Heidi Pauwels. [Verlagsinformation]

Herausgeberinnen
MONIKA HORSTMANN retired as Head of the Department of Modern South Asian Languages and Literatures, South Asia Institute, Heidelberg University. Her research focuses on north Indian literatures and religious movements from the early modern period and on the interface between religion and politics. Recent and forthcoming books: Der Zusammenhang der Welt (2009) and Jaipur 1778: The Making of a King (forthcoming in 2012). Profile page.
HEIDI PAUWELS is Professor in the Department of Asian Languages and Literature at the University of Washington in Seattle. She is the author of Kṛṣṇa's Round Dance Reconsidered (1996), In Praise of Holy Men (2002) and The Goddess as Role Model: Sita and Radha in Scripture and on Screen (2008). She has edited Indian Literature and Popular Cinema (2007). Profile page.

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