Vernacular English : Reading the Anglophone in Postcolonial India /

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How English has become a language of the people in India-one that enables the state but also empowers protests against itAgainst a groundswell of critiques of global English, Vernacular English argues that literary studies are yet to confront the true political import of the English language in the...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Saxena, Akshya (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2022]
Colección:Translation/Transnation ; 45
Temas:
English language > Social aspects > India.
Indic literature (English) > 20th century > History and criticism.
Language policy > India > History > 20th century.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Comparative Literature.
Acousmatic sound.
Admiration.
Ambedkar.
Americans.
Anonymity.
Ao Naga.
Audre Lorde.
Bangladesh.
Bollywood.
Brahmin.
Breast.
British Empire.
Caste.
Cess.
Clothing.
Coercive logic.
Colonialism.
Commodity.
Criticism.
Dalit (poem).
Dalit studies.
Dalit.
Debt.
Dichotomy.
Disenchantment.
District Administration.
Elision.
Etymology.
Female infanticide in India.
Forgetting.
Governance.
Government of Uttar Pradesh.
Governmentality.
Hat tip.
Hegemony.
Hindi.
Hindu nationalism.
Hindu.
Historiography.
Homophone.
How-to.
Humiliation.
In Plain Sight.
Indology.
Irony.
Jawaharlal Nehru.
Jyotirao Phule.
Kothi (gender).
Lingua franca.
Mandal Commission.
Metonymy.
Modernity.
Mother India.
Multilingualism.
National power.
Nationalism.
Nonverbal communication.
Official language.
Officialese.
Oral tradition.
Orality.
Orientalism.
Other Backward Class.
Paternalism.
Performativity.
Poetry.
Politics.
Prose.
Protest.
Public sphere.
Raag Darbari (novel).
Rationality.
Rebuttal (policy debate).
Regime.
Renunciation.
Sahitya Akademi.
Satire.
Savarna.
Sensibility.
Shame.
Shirt.
Slumdog Millionaire.
Social mobility.
Social relation.
Speech.
Subtitle (captioning).
Suicide note.
Symbolic power.
Technology.
Temsula Ao.
Transliteration.
Unemployment.
Untranslatability.
Usage.
Valmiki.
Vernacular.
Vocabulary.
Volition (psychology).
Vulnerability.
Writing.
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Sumario:How English has become a language of the people in India-one that enables the state but also empowers protests against itAgainst a groundswell of critiques of global English, Vernacular English argues that literary studies are yet to confront the true political import of the English language in the world today. A comparative study of three centuries of English literature and media in India, this original and provocative book tells the story of English in India as a tale not of imperial coercion, but of a people's language in a postcolonial democracy.Focusing on experiences of hearing, touching, remembering, speaking, and seeing English, Akshya Saxena delves into a previously unexplored body of texts from English and Hindi literature, law, film, visual art, and public protests. She reveals little-known debates and practices that have shaped the meanings of English in India and the Anglophone world, including the overlooked history of the legislation of English in India. She also calls attention to how low castes and minority ethnic groups have routinely used this elite language to protest the Indian state.Challenging prevailing conceptions of English as a vernacular and global lingua franca, Vernacular English does nothing less than reimagine what a language is and the categories used to analyze it.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (232 p.) : 15 b/w illus.
ISBN:9780691223148
9783110993899
9783110994810
9783110993752
9783110993738
9783110749731
Acceso:restricted access

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