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  • 22 - The Multilingual Local: Worlding Literature in India

  • from Part IV - Cartographic Shifts
  • Edited by Debjani Ganguly, University of Virginia
  • Book:
    The Cambridge History of World Literature
    Published online:
    17 August 2021
    Print publication:
    09 September 2021, pp 411-428

  • Summary

    Literary history in South Asia can be neither simply national nor monolingual. Its multilingualism has implications for doing world literature from a South Asian perspective, which does not follow a neat process of distillation from local to regional to national to world. Rather, it requires us to consider multiple co-existing languages (“multilingual locals”) and multiple levels and circuits of circulation that change over time in response to political, ideological, and aesthetic shifts. Paying attention to the media through which literature has circulated into and out of Indian languages, English included, and across regions and countries (“significant geographies”) is also important. We then are able to consider the relative visibility and familiarity of Indian and world literature, “thick” and “thin” readerly encounters, and the local production of world literature in new and interesting ways.