Liminal Spaces, and Identity Transformations in South Asian Literatures and Arts: Essays in Honour of Professor Alexander Dubyanskiy

Milan : Milano University Press, 2023.

Dubyanskaya T.

Under the general editorship: P. Rossi

The present volume is a collection of 16 papers presented at the International Seminar ‘Liminal Spaces, and Identity Transformations in Indian Cultural History’ in Milan, in September 2019. The focus is particularly on the literary and artistic aspects of India's extraordinary cultural heritage, from the Vedic period up to modernity; literature and arts are the lens through which variegated anthropological issues, crossing different historical phases, are investigated: firstly, the ritual question, in compliance with van Gennep and Turner’s approach, but also religious experiences, sovereignty and violence, dialectics of identity, social dynamics, gender identity, etc. Literature and arts, but still by means of their own aesthetic devices, mirror critical points characterising such issues, as if poetry and artwork, zooming in on specific transition elements, were themselves on the threshold of manifold layers of reality, able to pass through their interstitial discontinuities. Finally, it is a great honour to dedicate such a volume to the memory of Professor Alexander Dubyanskiy (1941–2020), eminent scholar in Indian literature, especially in Tamil poetry, who experienced multiple aspects of liminality both of the South Asian culture and life.

Chapters

A Soviet Man on a Rendezvous with India: Alexander Dubyanskiy's First Field Trip in Letters

Dubyanskaya T., , in: Liminal Spaces, and Identity Transformations in South Asian Literatures and Arts: Essays in Honour of Professor Alexander Dubyanskiy.: Milan: Milano University Press, 2023. Ch. 3 P. 37–51.

Added: October 6, 2023

Keywords: лиминальность, индийская культура, древняя Индия, древняя и средневековая индийская литература, ancient and medieval Indian literature, Indian Art, Tamil, Тамильская литература, liminality, Россия и Индия