Bakhtinian Explorations of Indian Culture

Lakshmi Bandlamudi is Professor of Psychology at LaGuardia Community College, City University of New York. E.V. Ramakrishnan is Professor Emeritus, School of Language, Literature and Culture Studies at Central University of Gujarat, Gandhinagar, Gujarat. He is an authority on South Asian comparative literature, and a bilingual writer who has published poetry and literary criticism in Malayalam and English. Among his critical books in English are Interdisciplinary Alter-natives in Comparative Literature (co-edited, Sage, 2013), Locating Indian Literature: Texts, Traditions and Translations (Orient Blackswan, 2011) and Making It New: Modernism in Malayalam, Marathi and Hindi Poetry (IIAS, Shimla, 1995). He has three volumes of poetry in English: Being Elsewhere in Myself (1980), A Python in a Snake Park (1994), and Terms of Seeing: New and Selected Poems (2006). He has over 150 published research papers in the areas of comparative literature, translation studies, South Asian studies, marginality studies and post-colonial literatures.

Chapter 1. Introduction: Intellectual Traditions of India in Dialogue with Mikhail Bakhtin Lakshmi Bandlamudi and E.V. Ramakrishnan.- Chapter 2 From Indo-European Philology to the Bakhtin Circle Craig Brandist.- Chapter 3 Carnival and Transgression in India: Towards a Global Spring Sunthar Visuvalingam.- Chapter 4 The Rule of Freedom: Rabelais, Bakhtin and Abhinavagupta Elizabeth Chalier-Visuvalingam.- Chapter 5 Dancing in the Sky of Consciousness: Architectonics and Answerability in the Aesthetic Vision of Malavika Sarukkai Lakshmi Bandlamudi.- Chapter 6 The Dialogicality of Travel: Nanak’s Udasis Jasbir Jain.- Chapter 7 “You Yourself are a Mosque with Ten Doors”: A Bakhtinian Reading of the Dialogic Tradition in Indian Poetry E. V. Ramakrishnan.- Chapter 8 Animal as Hero: Narrative Dynamics of Alterity and Answerability in the Elephant Stories of Aithihyamala Bini B. S.- Chapter 9 Translation as Dialogue: A Perspective Pooja J. Mehta.- Chapter 10 A Bakhtinian View of the Development of Novelistic Genre in India Jyoti Rane.- Chapter 11 Dialoguing the Web: Digital Technologies and Pedagogy Atanu Bhattacharya.- Chapter 12 Talking Texts, Writing Memory: A Bakhtinian Reading of Meena Alexander’s Fault Lines Paromita Chakrabarti.- Chapter 13 A Study of V.S. Naipaul’s India: A Million Mutinies Now Jasmine Anand.- Chapter 14 Dead Text or Living Consciousness? Bakhtinian Poetics in the Francophone African Context Foara Das Gupta.