{"product_id":"east-of-delhi-multilingual-literary-culture-and-world-literature-south-asia-research-9780197658291","title":"East of Delhi: Multilingual Literary Culture and World Literature (South Asia Research)","description":"\u003cp\u003eLike many societies across the world  the region of Awadh in North India has been bilingual throughout its history. But literary histories of the region often indicate otherwise. In the early twentieth century  colonists recodified literary histories separately according to language  detached written literature from oral literature  and reimagined the entangled literary past according to their own ideas about language  literature  and Indian history. At the same time  multilingualism remained resilient and acquired new uses.  East of Delhi: Multilingual Literary Culture and World Literature examines literature produced  practiced  and circulated in and out of North India  focusing on the region of Awadh  from the beginning of recorded vernacular literature in the late fourteenth century to the colonial era of the early twentieth century. This book considers texts in a wide range of genres-courtly  devotional  and popular-composed in the main languages of the region: Hindavi  Persian  Brajbhasha  Urdu. Individual chapters focus on narratives  devotional song-poems and didactic works  local courtly literary practices  and multilingual education as recorded in biographical dictionaries-anthologies. Author Francesca Orsini suggests that this multilingual and multi-genre approach is better suited to capturing the texture  complexity  and dynamics of literature in the world  and of literary history  than approaches that focus only on global circulation or models that draw centers and peripheries on a single global map.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45665840169013,"sku":"ByrdShop_0197658296","price":186.56,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780197658291.jpg?v=1782409638","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/east-of-delhi-multilingual-literary-culture-and-world-literature-south-asia-research-9780197658291","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}