Journals

Southerly, Vol. 70, No. 3: India India edited by Santosh K. Sareen and G.J.V. Prasad

Item: Southerly, Vol. 70, No. 3
Author: Mridula Nath Chakraborty

by Mridula Nath Chakraborty •

November 2011, no. 336

Brandl & Schlesinger, $29.95 pb, 282 pp

Journals

Southerly, Vol. 70, No. 3: India India edited by Santosh K. Sareen and G.J.V. Prasad

by Mridula Nath Chakraborty •

November 2011, no. 336

Special issues are difficult and delicate, given the burden of representation. Editor David Brooks confesses to providing only a glimpse of the rich field that might constitute Indian–Australian literary relations. He offers ‘that very Australian thing – a showbag, a sampler, full of enticements to explore further’. Given the slow but steady realisation in Australia that India should be a focus of attention for its scholars and students, this is a timely attempt.

Mridula Nath Chakraborty

By this contributor

Mridula Chakrabortyis Deputy Director of the Monash Asia Institute at Monash University. She is the editor of Being Bengali: At home and in the world (2014) and co-editor of A Treasury of Bangla Stories (1999). She has facilitated literary-cultural exchanges between Australia and India through Literary Commons!: Writing Australia-India in the Asian century with Dalit, Indigenous and Multilingual Tongues (2014–2016), Autumn School in Literary Translation (2013), and ALIF: Australia India Literatures International Forum (2012). The outcome of these collaborations was a special issue on Dalit/Indigenous poetry from twenty-five languages translated into/from English in Cordite Poetry Review (2016).