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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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Preface. On the Grounds
  • Introduction. Vernacular English: Reading the Anglophone
  • Chapter 1 Law: Democratic Objects in Postcolonial India, or India Demands English
  • Chapter 2 Touch: Dalit Anglophone Writers and a Language Shared
  • Chapter 3 Text: A Desire Called English in Indian Anglophone Literature
  • Chapter 4 Sound: The Mother's Voice and Anglophonic Soundscapes in Northeast India
  • Chapter 5 Sight: Cinematic English and the Pleasures of Not Reading
  • Coda. Radical Anglophony, or The Ethics of Attunement
  • Notes
  • Index

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