Literary Cultures and Digital Humanities in India

Name: Literary Cultures and Digital Humanities in India
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Literary Cultures and Digital Humanities in IndiaAuthor(s): Nishat Zaidi, A. Sean Pue\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge India\nISBN-13: 9781032406756, 978-1032406756\nSynopsis\nThis book explores the use of digital humanities (DH) to understand, interpret, and annotate the poetics of Indian literary and cultural texts, which circulate in digital forms in manuscripts and as oral or musical performance. Drawing on the linguistic, cultural, historical, social, and geographic diversity of Indian texts and contexts, it foregrounds the use of digital technologies including minimal computing, novel digital humanities research and teaching methodologies, critical archive generation and maintenance for explicating poetics of Indian literatures and generating scholarly digital resources which will facilitate comparative readings.\n\nWith contributions from DH scholars and practitioners from across India, the United States, the Unite.