Beyond English

<b>Honorable Mention Harry Levin Prize 2022 (American Comparative Literature Association)</b><br/><i><i><br/></i>Beyond English: World Literature and India</i>radically alters the debates on world literature that hinge on the model of circulation and global capital by deeply engaging with the idea of the world and world-making in South Asia. Tiwari argues that Indic words for world (<i>vishva jagat sansar</i>) offer a nuanced understanding of world literature that is antithetical to a commodified and standardized monolingual globe. She develops a comparative study of the concept of world literature<i></i>(<i>vishva sahitya</i>) in Rabindranath Tagore's works the desire for a new world in the lyrics of the Hindi shadowism (<i>chhayavaad</i>)<i></i>poets and world-making in Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai's <i>Chemmeen</i>(1956)<i></i>and Arundhati Roy's <i>The God of Small Things</i>(1997).<br/> <br/>By emphasizing the centrality of literature (<i>sahitya</i>) through a close reading of texts Tiwari orients world literature toward comparative literature and comparative literature toward a worldliness that is receptive to the poetics of a world in its original language and in translation.