Bakhtinian explorations of Indian culture
Contents
Introduction
intellectual traditions of India in dialogue with Mikhail Bakhtin
Lakshmi Bandlamudi, E. V. Ramakrishnan
1-19
Dancing in the sky of consciousness
architectonics and answerability in the aesthetic vision of Malavika Sarukkai
Lakshmi Bandlamudi
73-92
"You yourself are a mosque with ten doors"
a Bakhtinian reading of the dialogic tradition in Indian poetry
E. V. Ramakrishnan
105-119
Animal as hero
narrative dynamics of alterity and answerability in the elephant stories of Aithihyamala
121-133
Talking texts, writing memory
a Bakhtinian reading of Meena Alexander's fault lines
Paromita Chakrabarti
173-184
Exploring Bakhtin's dialogic potential in self, culture, and history
a study of V.S. Naipaul's India
Jasmine Anand
185-194
Dead text or living consciousnesses?
Bakhtinian poetics in the Francophone African context
Foara Adhikari
195-212