 | Literary Cultures and Digital Humanities in India Subjects: Area Studies; Computer Science; Humanities; Language & Literature; Asian Studies; Computer Science (General); Databases; Cultural Studies; Literature; Media & Film Studies; Database Management; Cyberculture; Interdisciplinary Literary Studies; South Asian Studies; Media & Communications; This book explores the use of digital technologies to understand, interpret, and annotate the poetics of Indian literary and cultural texts which circulate in digital forms -- in manuscript, 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, Digital Humanities, media studies, and South Asia Studies. A. Sean Pue is Associate Professor of Hindi Language and South Asian Literature and Culture at Michigan State University, USA. He is the author of I Too Have Some Dreams: N. M. Rashed and Modernism in Urdu Poetry (2014). An Andrew W. Mellon New Directions Fellowship allowed Pue to study linguistics and computer/data science and to develop "Publics of Sound: Data Driven Analysis of the of Poetic Innovation in South Asia," which includes an extensive sound archive of South Asian poetry and analytical and methodological writings. Pue holds a Ph.D. in Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures and Comparative Literature and Society from Columbia University. Nishat Zaidi is Professor of English at Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. A scholar, critic and translator, she is the recipient of several prestigious grants and has conducted collaborative research with the Centre for Indian Studies in Africa, University of Witwatersrand, SA, South Asia Institute, Heidelberg University Germany, and Michigan State University, USA. Her publications include Day and Dastan translated by Nishat Zaidi and Alok Bhalla (2018); Purdah and Polygamy : Life in an Indian Muslim Household, by Iqbalunnisa Hussain, edited and introduced by Nishat Zaidi (2018); Between Worlds: The Travels of Yusuf Khan Kambalposh translated, edited by Mushirul Hasan and Nishat Zaidi, (2014) among others. Her forthcoming work is Karbala: A Historical Play (translation of Premchand's play Karbala with a critical introduction and notes) to be published in 2022. |
