Book Description

Imaging India, Imaging Japan: A Chronicle of Reflections on Mutual Literature provides a comprehensive history of academic exchange between India & Japan in the field of mutual literature. It covers the status of Indian literature studies in Japan and Japanese literature studies in India. This volume is a product of intensive consultations and dialogue between writers, scholars, researchers and literary translators of both the countries. The book addresses the question of images popular and literary, in Indian and Japanese literature. It strives to explore the nature of cultural and spiritual interactions between India and Japan. Specific case studies have been organised in order to trace the roots of literary influences as well as the main currents in our contemporary literature keeping in view the possibility of learning from the literary perspectives of each other. The book also carries an updated bibliography on mutual literature. A thoroughly researched collaborative work, this volume is first of its kind in the history of international literary exchange that contains contributions from the doyens of Indian and Japanese literature.The book would be of considerable interest to a wide cross-section of readers such as writers, literary critics, researchers, translators, teachers and students of Japan and India.