Critical Discourse in Telugu

This volume forms a part of the Critical Discourses in South Asia series which deals with schools movements and discursive practices in major South Asian languages. It offers crucial insights into the making of Telugu literature and its critical tradition across over a century. The book brings together English translation of major writings of influential figures dealing with literary criticism and theory aesthetic and performative traditions re-interpretations of primary concepts categories and interactions in Telugu. It presents 32 key texts in literary and cultural studies representing thoughts debates signposts and interfaces on important trends in critical discourse in the Telugu region from the middle of the 19th to the end of the 20th century with nearly all translated by experts for the first time into English. The volume covers a wide array of themes ranging from a text by Kandukuri Veeresalingam on women’s education to Challapalli Swaroopa Rani on new readings of the oral literature of the marginalised communities.