Prof. Anjali Nerlekar’s The Oxford Handbook of Modern Indian Literatures (co-edited with Ulka Anjaria, Oxford UP 2024) has been shortlisted for the Modernist Studies Association Book Prize for Editions, Anthologies, and Collections published in 2023 or 2024.
Ulka Anjaria and Anjali Nerlekar (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Modern Indian Literatures (Oxford University Press, 2024
The Oxford Handbook of Modern Indian Literatures is a magisterially comprehensive and expertly edited compendium on its subject. With its eye trained on non-Anglophone Indian writing, this volume opens our eye to the wonderfully rich and varied literature that exists outside the canon of Anglophone postcolonial writing that is most familiar to the Global North. The chapters traverse the entire length and breadth of the country’s geo-cultural territory, highlighting the immense vibrancy and diversity of its languages and literatures, as India transitioned from its colonized space into a modern independent nation. In doing so, the contributors chart how within its excessive and often contradictory heterogeneity, India’s confrontation and engagement with modernity, and literary modernism, unfolds in sustaining and disruptive acts of invention, counternarrative, multilingualism, linguistic code-switching, social contestation, and memorializing, celebrating and recasting cultural traditions.https://www.moderniststudies.org/prizes/collection/.