ESSAYS
The Future of Comparative Literature in a World of World Literature: The US Experience
Dorothy Figueira
About the Social Relevance of the Study of Culture and Literature
Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek
A Response to Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek’s “About the Social Relevance of the Study of Culture and Literature”
Ipshita Chanda
Religions ‘Crossing Borders’: On the Emergence of Translation Traditions in India
T S Satyanath
Reading Characters: A Perspective on Early Oriya Fiction
Jatindra K Nayak
Goalbandhani Gaan of North Bengal: A Translation and Study of an Oral Tradition in Rajbanshi Rural Life
Smita Basu
A Song Rendering Rajbanshi Rural Life– Video
Smita Basu
“The White Town of Calcutta”: Re-reading Poems written in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century
Anwesha Dutta Ain
BOOK REVIEWS
Tagore and China: Eds. Wang Bangwei, Tan Chung, Amiya Dev, Wei Liming. Beijing: Central Compilation and Translation Press, 2011.
Samantak Das
The Writer as Critic: Essays in Literature, History, and Culture. Jasbir Jain. Jaipur: Rawat Publications, 2011.
Dheeman Bhattacharyya
Before the Divide: Hindi and Urdu Literary Culture. Ed. Francesca Orsini. Hyderabad: Orient Blackswan, 2010.
Swagata Bhattacharya
Memory, Images, Imagination: An Anthology of Bangla and Oriya Writings on Colonial Burma (1886-1948). Eds. Jatindra Kumar Nayak and Parthasarathi Bhaumik. Kolkata: Jadavpur University, 2010
Ritika Batabyal
TRANSLATIONS
Women of Japan
Hariprabha Takeda
Translated by Madhurima Mukhopadhyay
Journal of the Comparative Literature Association of India
Numbers 2 and 3 (January, 2013).
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Sāhitya
Journal of the Comparative Literature Association of India
Numbers 2 and 3 (January, 2013)
Sahitya is a double-blind refereed journal (ISSN 2249-6416) (Online) published from Delhi and Kolkata by the Comparative Literature Association of India
Board of Referees:
Professor Dorothy Figueira (University of Georgia, Athens, USA), Professor Ipshita Chanda (Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India), Professor Anisur Rahman (Jamia Millia Islamia, Delhi), Professor EV Ramakrishnan (Central University of Gandhinagar, India), Professor Harish Trivedi (Delhi University, India), Professor Jasbir Jain (Central University of Rajasthan, Kishangarh, India), Professor Jatindra Kumar Nayak (Utkal University, Bhubaneswar, India), Professor Jancy James (Central University of Kerala, Kasaragod, India), Professor B Y Lalithamba (Bengaluru, India), Professor Suchorita Chattopadhyay (Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India) and Professor Avadhesh Kumar Singh (IGNOU, Delhi, India)
Editorial Assistance: Anwesha Dutta Ain, Swagata Bhattacharya and Dheeman Bhattacharyya.
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