Abstract
One of the worldwide means to celebrate nationalism is the assumption of a country‟s National Poet category. South Asian countries also follow suit to declare their national/literary pride. This paper attempts to explore how such proclaimed National Poets be taught and interpreted as representatives of regional cosmopolitanism. Based on how teaching of scholarship may conflate with scholarship of teaching, we pick on Allama Muhammad Iqbal from Pakistan and Rabindranath Tagore from India to research what they may develop as transnational poetics beyond any socio-political lines of bifurcation. Our concern as researcher-teachers of transnational poetics is to investigate whether deeper understanding of cross-cultural/cross-border dialogic in the works of these poets affects mutual human relationship? On what artistic grounds such translatable transnational poetics, though apparently filled with nationalistic derivatives, may help transmit attitudinal change, and connect the posterity of the region for shared values, dissolving resultantly the myopic ideologies that obstruct greater goals? Based on some “Interactive Teaching” methods, its experimental and emancipatory spirit, our findings may permit us ask questions like: What is the gender of South Asian nationalism, and why do we not have any female National Poet? How then the colonial/ postcolonial patriarchal cum patriotic orders express the feminizing of homelands as motherlands? We may not find solutions to such issues but raise awareness about how transnationalism, once taught interactively through the works of national poets, may help us think critically in broader terms, facilitating us also to develop a promising futuristic and inclusive professional citizenship.
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