顧名思義,論文集《文化研究在印度》展示了印度學界文化研究的發展現狀。學者們從地方語言、印度文學(含民間文學)、通俗文化、大眾傳媒、戲劇表演等多角度入手,探討印度性、種姓、原住民、身份政治、女性地位等主題,其間涉及后殖民理論、賤民研究、(后)馬克思主義、(后)民族主義等理論論爭,體現了文化研究與文學研究、語言學、歷史學、人類學、政治學、大眾傳播學等學科之間展開對話的努力。印度學者意圖通過文化研究來發現、確立印度性,渴望文化研究能在英語文學研究之外發展為一門獨立學科。在全球化、數字化時代,印度文化研究未來的發展方向有待進一步探索。

Cultural Studies in India discusses the development of cultural studies in India. Scholars in this book probe into multiple themes including Indian-ness, caste, indigenous people, identity politics, women’s social status and others in the light of various perspectives such as vernacular languages, India literature(including folk literature), popular culture, mass media, theatrical performance and so on. This anthology deals with contemporary debates and interpretations of post-colonial theory, subaltern studies,(post-) Marxism and(post-) nationalism, showing their attempts to conduct inter-disciplinary dialogues between cultural studies and other disciplines such as literary studies, linguistics, historiography, anthropology, politics and mass communications. Indian scholars intend to discover and construct Indianness by virtue of cultural studies while establishing this field as an independent discipline. The prospects of Indian cultural studies need further explorations in the context of the globalized and digitalized world.