TY - BOOK AU - Gallien,Claire TI - Late Eighteenth-Century British Orientalism and the Creation of the Indian Literary Canon PY - 2016///. N1 - 36 N2 - The rediscovery of Indian literature in late eighteenth-century Europe, as well as its influence on European literary movements, have been studied extensively. However, the question of what is actually meant by “Indian literature” has been insufficiently addressed. Titles and contents are mentioned, but without accounting for the transformations on Indian texts before their circulation in Europe. Borrowing from South Asian studies and from the critique of Orientalism, this article unravels the logics and politics that went into the creation of an Indian literary canon “in comparison” with Europe UR - https://shs.cairn.info/journal-revue-de-litterature-comparee-2015-4-page-405?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080 ER -