Transcultural Humanities in South Asia: Critical Essays on Literature and Culture

This volume looks at the implications of transcultural humanities in South Asia, which is becoming a crucial area of research within literary and cultural studies. The volume also explores various complex critical dimensions of transculturation, its indeterminate periodisation, its temporal and spatial nonlinearity, its territoriality and intersectionality.

Drawing on contributors from around the globe, the entries look at literature and poetics, theory and praxis, borders and nations, politics, Partition, gender and sexuality, the environment, representations in art and pedagogy and the transcultural classroom. Using key examples and case studies, the contributors look at current developments in transcultural and transnational standpoints and their possible educational outcomes. A broad and comprehensive collection, as it also speaks about the value of the humanities and the significance of South Asian contexts, Transcultural Humanities in South Asia will be of particular interest to those working on postcolonial studies, literary studies, Asian studies and more.

Waseem Anwar is Professor of English and Director ICPWE (International Centre for Pakistani Writing in English) at Kinnaird College for Women, Lahore, Pakistan. Former Dean of Humanities and chairperson at FCC and GC universities in Lahore, he is extensively published in the areas of literary theory, postcolonial studies; and British, American, African and South Asian literatures.

Nosheen Yousaf is a lecturer in English at Government College University, Faisalabad, Pakistan. Her articles are published in national dailies The Nation and the Dawn. Her MPhil thesis on racial binaries and transracial realities helped her develop her research interests in the areas of border studies and post-feminism.