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Vernacular English : Reading the Anglophone in Postcolonial India /
"After India's Partition and independence in 1947, "cleansing" Hindi by removing Urdu words was part of the nation's effort to disavow Islamic influence and to forge an exclusively Hindu "Indian" identity. Sanskritized Hindi was anointed the official language of In...
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
2022.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Preface. On the Grounds
- Introduction. Vernacular English: Reading the Anglophone
- Elsewhere, or The Problem of English
- Vernacular Resolutions
- The Promise of the Common: Historical Routes of English in India
- The Anglophone, or To Read What Is Not Written
- Chapter Descriptions, or Anglophone in Five Speech Acts
- Chapter 1. Law: Democratic Objects in Postcolonial India, or India Demands English
- A Language of Paper
- Administrative Anxieties of the Postcolonial State
- The Alliance between Hindi and English
- India Demands English (Anxiously)
- Satire, or The View from Below
- Language Ex Machina: English as an Instrument
- Chapter 2. Touch: Dalit Anglophone Writers and a Language Shared
- The Dalit Writer and the English Language
- Ambedkar, Phule, and the Goddess English of the Bloodless Revolution
- Dalit Anglophone Poets
- Hindi Dalit Writing and the Sensation of Touch
- Reading English after Touch
- Chapter 3. Text: A Desire Called English in Indian Anglophone Literature
- Caste and Representation in Indian Anglophone Literature
- How Does a Dalit Character Sound? Reading Anand's Untouchable
- Performing English in Adiga's The White Tiger
- Fugitive Fictions
- Chapter 4. Sound: The Mother's Voice and Anglophonic Soundscapes in Northeast India
- Orality, or English as a Mother Tongue
- "Indian Army Rape Us": Political Mothers and the Indian State
- A Language of Protest: Mahasweta Devi and Arundhati Roy
- Sonic English and the Aesthetics of Witness in Literature from Northeast India
- Chapter 5. Sight: Cinematic English and the Pleasures of Not Reading
- Seeing, Not Reading
- Montage, or Meaning Deferred in Slumdog Millionaire
- The Ordinariness of English in Gully Boy
- Materiality of English in Hindi-Urdu Cinema
- Coda. Radical Anglophony, or The Ethics of Attunement
- Notes
- Index