Retelling Time challenges the hegemony of colonial modernity over
academic disciplines and over ways in which we think about
something as fundamental as time. It reclaims a bouquet of
alternative practices of time from premodern South Asia, which stem
from worldviews that have been marginalized. These practices relate
to a range of classical and vernacular genres including
alaṃkāra, theravāda, yoga, rāmakathā, tasawwuf, āyāraṃga,
purāṇa, trikā-tantra, navya-nyāya, pratyabhijñā, carita,
kūṭīyāṭṭam and maṅgala kāvya. These represent multiple
languages such as Sanskrit, Persian, Pali, Prakrit, Awadhi,
Malayalam, Kannada, and Bengali, as well as diverse streams, from
Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism, and Sufi Islam to logic, yoga, tantra,
theatre, and poetics. Retelling Time questions the modern
Eurocentric belief in an empty, homogenous, abbreviated, secular
and irreversible time. It proposes instead that that premodern
South Asia invested time with cultural function and value, which
ranged from the contingent to the transcendent, the quotidian to
the cosmic, the fleeting to the eternal, and the social to the
spiritual. Accordingly, time was reworked --- stretched, melded,
collapsed, recursed, rolled over, and even extinguished. Sacred,
social, aesthetic, scientific, fictional, historical, and
performative South Asian traditions are seen here in conversation
with one other, mediated by an ethical paradigm. Their collective
challenge is to decolonize our ways of knowing and being. This book
will be of interest to scholars of South Asian history, philosophy
of history, anthropology, literature, Sanskrit, post colonial
studies, cultural studies, studies of temporality and of the Global
South.
General
Imprint: |
Taylor & Francis
|
Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
September 2023 |
Editors: |
Shonaleeka Kaul
|
Dimensions: |
234 x 156mm (L x W) |
Pages: |
218 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-03-206205-1 |
Categories: |
Books
|
LSN: |
1-03-206205-3 |
Barcode: |
9781032062051 |
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