Vernacular English (eBook)

Reading the Anglophone in Postcolonial India

Akshya Saxena (Autor)

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2022
232 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-22314-8 (ISBN)

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How English has become a language of the people in Indiaone 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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.3.2022
• Reihe/Serie: Translation/Transnation
• Reihe/Serie: Translation/Transnation
• Zusatzinfo: 15 b/w illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Wörterbuch / Fremdsprachen
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: Abjection • acousmatic sound • Admiration • Ambedkar • americans • Amitav Ghosh • anonymity • Ao Naga • Apathy • Arundhati Roy • Ashok (Kannada actor) • Audre Lorde • Bangladesh • Bollywood • Brahmin • B. R. Ambedkar • Breast • British Empire • caste • Catachresis • Cess • Chinua Achebe • Clothing • Coercive logic • Colonialism • Commodity • Comparative Literature • contempt • Criticism • critique • Dalit • Dalit Literature • Dalit (poem) • Dalit studies • debt • Decolonization • dichotomy • Disenchantment • District Administration • distrust • D. R. Nagaraj • elision • E. M. Forster • English Language • English-medium education • English novel • english poetry • etymology • Female infanticide in India • forbidden knowledge • Forgetting • G. N. Devy • Governance • Governmentality • Government of Uttar Pradesh • Harijan • Hat tip • hegemony • Henry Louis Gates Jr. • Hindi • Hindi literature • Hindu • Hindu nationalism • Historiography • Homophone • How-To • humiliation • imperialism • Impossibility • INDIAN ENGLISH LITERATURE • Indian Nationalism • Indology • injunction • In Plain Sight • Insurgency • International English • Irony • Jargon • Jawaharlal Nehru • Jerry Pinto • Jyotirao Phule • Kancha Ilaiah • Kothi (gender) • Language Policy • Latin script • lingua franca • linguistic imperialism • Literacy • Literary Theory • Literature • Mandal Commission • Marjorie Garber • Metonymy • Misspeaking • Modernity • Mother India • Mulk Raj Anand • Multilingualism • narrative • Nationalism • national power • nonverbal communication • of education • officialese • official language • Oppression • orality • Oral tradition • Orientalism • Other Backward Class • paternalism • performativity • Philosophy of Language • Poetry • Politics • Prose • Protest • Public sphere • Raag Darbari (novel) • Racism • Rationality • Rebuttal (policy debate) • Regime • Renunciation • Rey Chow • Rita Kothari • Sahitya Akademi • Sanskrit • Satire • Savarna • Savitribai Phule • Secularism • sensibility • separatism • Shame • Shirt • Slavery • Slumdog Millionaire • Social mobility • social relation • Speech • Speech Act • Subtitle (captioning) • Subversion • suicide note • Suspension of Disbelief • Swadeshi movement • Symbolic Power • Tabish Khair • Technology • Temsula Ao • The God of Small Things • The Other Hand • The Realist • Thomas Babington Macaulay • Transliteration • typography • Unemployment • Universal Grammar • untouchability • Untranslatability • Usage • Valmiki • Vernacular • vocabulary • Volition (psychology) • vulnerability • words without borders • Writing
• ISBN-10: 0-691-22314-9 / 0691223149
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-22314-8 / 9780691223148