Acknowledgments
Introduction: Multicultural Comparatism
Part I: India and the Study of Comparative Literature
1 Beauty, Politics, and Cultural Otherness: The Bias of Literary Difference
Patrick Colm Hogan
Part II: Theorizing Cultural Difference and Cross-CulturalInvariance: Authors, Readers, and Literary Language
2 The Question of Authorship in Indian Literature
Jeffrey Ebbesen
3 The Genre Theory in Sanskrit Poetics
V. K. Chari
4 The Yolk in the Pea-Hen's Egg: Language as the Ultimate Reality
W. P. Lehmann
Part III: Interpreting Cultural Difference and Cross-Cultural Invariance: Precolonial, Colonial, and Postcolonial
5 Patriarchy and Paranoia: Imaginary Infidelity in Uttararamacarita and The Winter's Tale
Lalita Pandit
6 Ray's Devi
Norman N. Holland
7 The Poetics of Exile and the Politics of Home
Una Chaudhuri
Part IV: Hybridity and Universals: An Interlude
8 A Sense of Detail and a Sense of Order: Anita Desai
Interviewed by Lalita Pandit
Part V: Interpreting Literary Contact: Translation, Influence, and Writing Back
9 Translating Indian Literary Texts into English
P. K. Saha
10 Nautanki and the Struggle for Independence, National Integration, and Social Change: A Brechtian Analysis
Darius L. Swann
11 Caste, Race, and Nation: History and Dialectic inRabindranath Tagore's Gora
Lalita Pandit
Part VI: Theorizing Colonial Contact: Hybrid Identities and the Possibility of Postcolonial Culture
12 The Postcolonial Critic: Homi Bhabha
Interviewed by David Bennett and Terry Collits
13 Culture, State, and the Rediscovery of Indian Politics
Ashis Nandy
Notes on Contributors
Index