Literary Transcreation as a Jain Practice

A vast corpus of Jain texts lies unexamined in manuscript libraries, several of them new versions of earlier works. Though the prevalence of literary transcreation in Jain communities is striking, it is by no means a practice exclusive to them. The field of South Asian Studies has increasingly dealt...

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description A vast corpus of Jain texts lies unexamined in manuscript libraries, several of them new versions of earlier works. Though the prevalence of literary transcreation in Jain communities is striking, it is by no means a practice exclusive to them. The field of South Asian Studies has increasingly dealt with the creative engagement of authors with an authoritative literary object. Although these studies have brought to the fore important conclusions, the Jains as a literary community have remained absent from these discussions. This volume addresses this gap, highlighting the influential role of Jain authors in the multilingual literary world of South Asia. With contributions by John Brockington | Mary Brockington | Eva De Clercq | Gregory Clines | John Cort | Heleen De Jonckheere | Anna Aurelia Esposito | Basile Leclère | Anil Mundra | Shubha Shantamurty | Neha Tiwari | Simon Winant
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-1506382025-01-28T17:05:07Z Literary Transcreation as a Jain Practice De Clercq, Eva De Jonckheere, Heleen Winant, Simon Indian religion Jain literature Jain Studies South Asian Studies thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCC Cultural studies A vast corpus of Jain texts lies unexamined in manuscript libraries, several of them new versions of earlier works. Though the prevalence of literary transcreation in Jain communities is striking, it is by no means a practice exclusive to them. The field of South Asian Studies has increasingly dealt with the creative engagement of authors with an authoritative literary object. Although these studies have brought to the fore important conclusions, the Jains as a literary community have remained absent from these discussions. This volume addresses this gap, highlighting the influential role of Jain authors in the multilingual literary world of South Asia. With contributions by John Brockington | Mary Brockington | Eva De Clercq | Gregory Clines | John Cort | Heleen De Jonckheere | Anna Aurelia Esposito | Basile Leclère | Anil Mundra | Shubha Shantamurty | Neha Tiwari | Simon Winant 2025-01-28T17:05:05Z 2025-01-28T17:05:05Z 2025 book ONIX_20250128_9783987401602_2 9783987401602 9783987401596 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/150638 eng Beiträge zur kulturwissenschaftlichen Süd- und Ostasienforschung image/png Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://www.nomos-shop.de/de/p/literary-transcreation-as-a-jain-practice-gr-978-3-98740-159-6 https://doi.org/10.5771/9783987401602 Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG Ergon 10.5771/9783987401602 10.5771/9783987401602 20c8b06d-3b2b-4af2-acda-fbcfdfea5744 9783987401602 9783987401596 Ergon 13 277 Baden-Baden open access
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Jain literature
Jain Studies
South Asian Studies
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Literary Transcreation as a Jain Practice
title Literary Transcreation as a Jain Practice
title_full Literary Transcreation as a Jain Practice
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Jain literature
Jain Studies
South Asian Studies
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Jain literature
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South Asian Studies
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