The ASIANetwork Exchange: A Journal for Asian Studies in the Liberal Arts | |
Countless Ramayanas: Language and Cosmopolitan Belonging in a South Asian Epic | |
Rafadi Hakim1  | |
[1] Carleton College; | |
关键词: India; Maharashtra; Ramayana; language; cosmopolitanism; genre and intertextuality; | |
DOI : 10.16995/ane.117 | |
来源: DOAJ |
【 摘 要 】
The Kiski Kahani project in Pune, India, is a not-for-profit program that compiles stories of the Ramayana, a South Asian epic, and publishes them in English. Kiski Kahani’s ideology rejects the Hindu nationalist master narrative of the Ramayana, and privileges the fragmentary, improvised stories of the epics. As a socially grounded language practice, Kiski Kahani’s retellings are grounded in pan-Indian, cosmopolitan modalities that index a sense of belonging to a pluri-cultural nation: the use of English rather than Hindi or Marathi, and a curation of stories from diverse Indian regions and languages that develops an emerging genre.
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