Another Asia : Rabindranath Tagore & Okakura Tenshin
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Another Asia : Rabindranath Tagore & Okakura Tenshin
（Oxford India paperbacks）
Oxford University Press, 2009, c2006
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Another Asia : Rabindranath Tagore and Okakura Tenshin
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Description based on 2nd impression, 2010
"Oxford India paperbacks 2009"--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-224) and index
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Set against a panoramic background of inter-Asian cultural politics, and drawing on the intersections of the late Meiji period in Japan and the Swadeshi movement in Bengal, Another Asia elaborates on the ideals of Asia catalyzed by the meeting of Rabindranath Tagore and the Japanese art historian and curator Okakura Tenshin in Calcutta in 1902. The book weaves through an intricate tapestry of ideas relating to pan-Asianism, nationalism, cosmopolitanism, and friendship, and positions the early modernist tensions of the period within-and against-the spectre of a unified Asia that concealed considerable political differences. The book draws on pan-Asian works such as The Ideals of the East and The Awakening of the East, in counterpoint to Tagore's radical Nationalism. The book, offering new insights into the ways in which the Orient travelled within and beyond Asia stimulated by emergent modes of vernacular cosmopolitanism, will appeal to students and scholars of cultural studies, South Asian postcolonial literature, literary theory, and performance studies, as well as general readers.
Table of Contents
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, PREFACE, PROLOGUE
- 1. ASIA What is Asia?
- One Asia
- The Nation as Museum
- Implicit Hierarchies
- The Awakening of the East
- Encountering Nivedita
- Problematizing the Postcolonial
- The Complication of Beauty
- 2. NATIONALISM The Enigma of Silence
- Swadeshi Samaj
- Gora's Bharatbarsha
- Negotiating 'Nothingness'
- Against Nationalism
- Reorienting the Orient
- Crisis in 'Civilization'
- Grounds of Misunderstanding
- Discriminating the Modern
- Homage to the West
- 'Our History'
- Countering Tagore
- 3. COSMOPOLITANISM Asian Cosmopolitans?
- Reclaiming Cosmopolitanism
- The Subaltern 'Cosmopolitan'
- Negotiating Privilege
- Cultural Property, or Loot?
- Cosmopolitics of Dress and Language
- The Cosmopolitan in Exile
- 4. FRIENDSHIP The Intertexts of Love
- Beyond Masculinity
- Homosociality in Context
- Modalities of Friendship
- Foreign Friends
- War and Friendship Epilogue, Notes , References, Index
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