This book explores the use of digital humanities (DH) to understand, interpret, and annotate the poetics of Indian literary and cultural texts, which circulate in digital forms ― in manuscripts ― and as oral or musical performance. Drawing on the linguistic, cultural, historical, social, and geographic diversity of Indian texts and contexts, it foregrounds the use of digital technologies ― including minimal computing, novel digital humanities research and teaching methodologies, critical archive generation and maintenance ― for explicating poetics of Indian literatures and generating scholarly digital resources which will facilitate comparative readings.
With contributions from DH scholars and practitioners from across India, the United States, the United Kingdom, and more, this book will be a key intervention for scholars and researchers of literature and literary theory, DH, media studies, and South Asian Studies.
Author(s): Nishat Zaidi, A. Sean Pue
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 412
City: London
Cover
Half Title
Title
Copyright
Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
PART I Digital Humanities From the Sidelines: Theoretical Considerations
1 Digital Cultures in India: Digitality and Its Discontents
2 Community Accountability and Activist Interventions in the Digital Humanities
3 Three Models of World Literature
PART II Archives, Ethics, and Praxis
4 Digital Archives for Indian Literatures and Cultures: Challenges and Prospects
5 Bichitra: The Online Tagore Variorum Project
6 Digital Humanities in Practice: A Case Study
7 Archiving “Community’s Voices” in Karbi Anglong: Collective Memory and Digital Apprehensions
8 From Rekhta to rekhta.org: Digital Remappings of Urdu Literary Culture and Public Sphere
PART III Forms in Flux I: Trajectories of Digital Cultures in Indian Literatures
9 “Digitizing Derozio: Exploring Intertexts to English Romanticism in Collected Poems of Henry Derozio”
10 The Internet in the Context of Indian Women’s Poetry in English
11 Putting the Local in the Global—Indian Graphic Novels: The New Vogue of Indian Writing in English
12 Quantitative Stepwise Analysis of the Impact of Technology in Indian English Novels 1947–2017
13 (Un)Scripting Hindustani: The Special Case of Hindi-Urdu Audiobook
PART IV Forms in Flux II: Born Digital
14 Journeying Against the Heroes: Subaltern Poetics in Indian Videogames
15 Narrative and Play: Some Reflections on Videogames Based on Bollywood
16 Hitman 2 and Its Spectre of Mumbai: A City Lost in Translation
17 Electronic Literature in India: Where Is It? Does It Even Exist?
PART V Digital Atmospheres
18 The Cult of YouTube Mushairas in India’s Small Towns
19 Performative Politics in Digital Spaces: An Analysis of Lokshahiri (People’s Poetry) on YouTube
20 Encountering the Digital in Folk Songs and Oral History: Tracing the History and Memory of Migration of Tea Plantation Labour Through Jhumur Songs
21 Infusing Digital Media Into Theatre in Contemporary Indian Performances
Afterword: Rethinking Digital Colonialisms—The Limits of Postcolonial Digital Humanities
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