Empire and Poetic Voice: Cognitive and Cultural Studies of Literary Tradition and Colonialism

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Abhinavagupta, 25 àbíkú, 136, 137, 145, 147, 149, 152-54 Abraham, R. C., 139, 215 abstraction, 57-62, 168, 191, 200, 243, 253, 254 abundance, 136, 137, 140, 147–49, 151 Abu\ Yazêd, 211, 218 Achebe, Chinua, 19, 33, 93 Achille, 170–73, 176–84, 188, 191, 192, 194, 196 Achilles, 170, 177, 191, 195, 196 actional presuppositions, 243, 251, 254 Acts of the Apostles, 102, 103, 116 Adam, 22, 289, 290, 247 adequacy, 136 adharma, 68, 78, 82, 85 ad hoc categories, 246 adventure story, 23, 24, 57 Aeneas, 182–85, 194 Aeneid, 24, 168, 169, 181–85, 255 aesthetics, 22, 23, 29, 57, 134, 234, 241, 251 Afghanistan, 225 Afolabe, 183 Africa, 1–8, 11–13, 16–18, 26, 29, 33–39, 92, 93, 96, 98–100, 103, 105, 106, 107, 109, 111, 112, 114, 117, 118, 122, 123, 133, 138, 162, 163, 171–86, 190, 192, 193, 227, 229, 231, 235, 239, 241, 242, 244, 249, 253 African-American, 32 Afro-Caribbean, 18, 23, 26, 27, 91, 92, 97, 99, 105, 108, 110, 111, 116, 118, 119, 122, 123, 162, 164, 166, 169, 171, 172, 176, 177–87, 195, 241, 252 Afrocentricity, 227 Afro-Christianity, 112 Afzal-Khan, Fawzia, 239 Agni, 76 Ahalya\, 80, 81 ahim≥sa\, 67, 68, 70, 76, 79, 84–86, 90, 255 Ahmad, Aijaz, 240 AIDS, 136 aisling, 230 Aitchison, Jean, 238 Akbar, 219, 220, 225 al-Fa\ra\bê, 25, 32 al-Hujwiri, 221 al-H≥ usayn, 218 ‘Alê, 218 Ali, Agha Shahid, 24, 27, 173, 197, 198, 204–25, 240, 242 “Farewell,” 214 “From Another Desert,” 24, 27, 204–25, 240, 242 “Homage to Faiz Ahmed Faiz (d., 20 November, 1984),” 209, 222 “I Dream I Am the Only Passenger on Flight 423 to Srinagar,” 213 275 Index “I Dream it is Afternoon When I Return to Delhi,” 211, 214 T. S. Eliot as Editor, 205 Ali, Ahmed, 204, 208, 211 Ali, Maulana Muhammad, 215, 216 alienation, situational, 254 see also identification, situational Alla\h, 208, 217, 221, 223 allegory, 47, 60, 61, 69, 76, 80, 86, 87, 103, 111, 118, 144, 148, 169–71, 173, 176, 189, 191, 208, 209, 223, 239, 240, 242 Amadi, Elechi, 140 Americanization, 170, 171 Amulya, 74–79, 85, 89 Anand, Mulk Raj, 93 ancestors, 64, 92, 93, 99, 125, 132, 136, 138, 140, 141, 156, 171, 177, 182, 183, 185, 215, 228, 231, 235 Anchises, 183, 184, 194 Andrews, Walter G., 242 angels, 40, 48, 49, 97, 120, 121, 123, 189, 220, 223 Annapurna, 79 anthropology, 22, 126, 127 anticolonialism, 5, 19, 35, 36, 46, 47, 78, 92, 95, 97, 99, 100, 103, 104, 106, 112, 118, 122 apartheid, 5 apocalypse, 120, 121 Apollo, 182, 185 Apostles, 103, 105, 112, 115, 120, 122 apotheosis, 118–22 Arabic traditions, 28, 32, 92, 162, 207, 210, 211, 215 Aristotle, 233, 234, 250 artha, 67, 81, 82 Arthaóa\stra, 240 Aruacs, 170 Aryans, 40, 43, 44, 65, 70, 96 Asclepius, 178 Ashcroft, Bill, 2, 33, 46 assimilation, 13, 16, 243 atman, 211 Attar, Farid Ud-Din, 224 attentional focus, 200, 243, 244, 248, 253 Attwater, Donald, 104, 180 Atwood, Margaret, 34 Austen, Jane, 92 authenticity, 2, 3, 4, 7, 15, 45, 82, 244, 252 reactionary, 252 authors, 2, 17–26, 33–36, 45, 46, 57–59, 63, 83, 92, 112, 120, 126–28, 130, 158, 162–64, 166–68, 175, 194, 198–205, 207, 229, 232–34, 237, 240–43, 245–48, 251–53 avatars, 84 Averroes see Ibn Rushd Avicenna see Ibn Sina\ Awolalu, J. Omosade, 137, 146, 150, 151, 153 Ayodhya, 70, 72, 73 Azada, R., 242 Bakhtin, M. M., 45 “Bande Mataram,” 79 baptism, 190, 191 bards, 174–76, 180, 195 Baron, Reuben, 158, 160 Barsalou, Lawrence W., 246 Bascom, William, 142, 145, 146 Basil, 106 Bauckham, Richard, 112 Baumgartner, Hugo, 36–43, 238, 239 Beatitudes, 103 Beckett, Samuel, 175, 200 Beier, Ulli, 149 Beilis, Viktor, 134 Beirut, 216, 221 Belcher, Stephen, 242 Belgium, 37, 239 Bengal, ix, 54, 55, 64, 65, 69, 74, 76, 79, 80, 82, 102, 240 Benjamin, Reb, 40 Bennett, Louise, 127 Bennett and Ward, 187 Best, Ernest, 112 276 Index Ali, Agha Shahid (continued) Bhabha, Homi, 4–7, 11, 12, 15–17, 25 Bhagavad Gêta\, 65, 76 Bharata, 70, 71, 75 Bharatiya Janata Party, 242 Bhavabhu\ti, 55 Bible, 95, 107, 108, 110, 112, 114–17, 119 Bimala, 60, 65, 69, 74–89...