{"product_id":"states-of-disconnect-9780231205689","title":"States of Disconnect","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eStates of Disconnect\u003c\/i\u003e examines the breakdown of transnationalism through readings of literary texts that express aversion to pairing ideas of China and India. Adhira Mangalagiri proposes the concept of “disconnect”: a crisis of transnationalism perceptible in moments when a connection is severed, interrupted, or disavowed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHow does one reckon with the conditions of comparison in the act of comparison? Reading twentieth-century Chinese and Hindi texts side by side or against each other, this book offers a fascinating account of literary relations between China and India with invaluable insights on rupture, repulsion, and crisis of understanding. A bold experiment in method. -- Lydia Liu, Columbia University\u003cbr\u003eThis deeply inspiring and important book explores the gray zones of literary relations. \u003ci\u003eStates of Disconnect\u003c\/i\u003e subjects the easy pair of India and China to stringent scrutiny and in the process offers a new vocabulary and critical tools for comparative literature in a world full of tension and strife. -- Francesca Orsini, SOAS, University of London\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eStates of Disconnect \u003c\/i\u003eoffers a novel approach by exploring how conditions of war, diplomatic breakdown, and international friction factor non-comparability into cross-cultural interpretation and genres of transnational literacy. Mangalagiri puts the brakes on forms of borderless criticism that homogenize distinct knowledge worlds and globalize literary learning without sufficient attention to the politics of difference. -- Emily Apter, New York University\u003cbr\u003eDaring to step into a territory where few humanist scholars of China-India relations have tread, Mangalagiri focuses on the ‘disconnect’ and negativity that characterizes a great deal of this relationship in the modern literary realm. She demonstrates persuasively that the first step in literature is to confront and understand the disconnect and imagine the ethical possibilities of the relationship from this fuller understanding. -- Prasenjit Duara, Duke University\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eStates of Disconnect\u003c\/i\u003e, Mangalagiri portrays how China and India encountered each other against the global background of war and peace, imperialism and nationalism, and, above all, transculturation and its disavowal. Working against the grain of conventional modernity studies, \u003ci\u003eStates of Disconnect\u003c\/i\u003e probes the ways in which circulation falls short and connectivity stumbles, as well as the options of alternative modernities arising therefrom. -- David Der-wei Wang, Harvard University\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eStates of Disconnect\u003c\/i\u003e is a pioneering work of scholarship. It shifts the gaze to cultural production and emphasizes the ways in which the acts of writing and reading in both countries, and the views each developed of the other in these cultural practices, did not necessarily follow the prevailing political vicissitudes of the transnational relationship. -- Laura Brueck, author of \u003ci\u003eWriting Resistance: The Rhetorical Imagination of Hindi Dalit Literature\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eStates of Disconnect\u003c\/i\u003e aims at no less than reshaping the paradigm of comparison and supplying a critical vocabulary for a new ethics of transnational relation. * MCLC Resource Center *\u003cbr\u003eDeeply serious in its disciplinary-cum-ethical commitments and confident  in the possibilities afforded by critical reading [. . .], \u003ci\u003eStates of Disconnect\u003c\/i\u003e is  ultimately as inspiring as it is generative. * Critical Inquiry *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNote on Transliteration and Translation\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e1. Anatomy of Antagonism: The Indian Policeman in Chinese Literature\u003cbr\u003e2. Revolution Redux: Agyeya’s China Stories\u003cbr\u003e3. Dialogue and Its Discontents: 1950s Cultural Diplomacy Untold\u003cbr\u003e4. Word and World in Crisis: Hindi Texts of 1962\u003cbr\u003e5. On Correspondence: Lu Xun and Premchand\u003cbr\u003eConclusion: A Comparatist’s Guide to Disconnect\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex","brand":"Columbia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400368562519,"sku":"9780231205689","price":90.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780231205689.jpg?v=1730470514","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/states-of-disconnect-9780231205689","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}