Examples Of Transnationalism In The Mahabharata

VilashiniCooppan suggests that comparative literature is largely a result of transnationalism. Communication between two nations facilitates an interchange of “capital, goods, labour, persons, and information” (15). It is the entity called global consciousness, which has maintained harmony between diverse cultures. The striking presence of this harmony is observed in the 1989 English film adaptation of the Mahabharata by Peter Brook.
The title of Brook’s The Mahabharata is translated as “The Great History of Mankind”. This indicates towards the universal nature of the epic, that it is relatable to every Man. The performers in the film include Africans, Americans, Asians and Europeans. A conglomeration of different nationalities, ethnicities and cultures symbolises that the Mahabharata speaks about the entire human race.
Brook’s The Mahabharata has remoulded various perspectives of the Mahabharata, especially the language. The English language is remodelled to cater to the twentieth century Western audience. This language seeks comparison with the language used in BibekDebroy’s translated version of the manuscript, The Mahabharata, the novel. His usage of the English language

The influence is to the degree that comparative literature has become a product of transnationalism. “Comparative literature has always questioned and often transgressed boundaries; boundaries of national literatures and national histories, of literary periods and literary genres, of disciplinary practices and critical theories.” (Cooppan 18). Transnationalism largely involves the interchange of national literatures, that is, two nations encourage an interchange of their own literatures. The interflow of literatures inevitably leads to a comparison of the two literatures in motion. Hence, it can be safely concluded that comparative literature compares the literatures of two (or more)