Vernacular English : : Reading the Anglophone in Postcolonial India /

Vernacular English : : Reading the Anglophone in Postcolonial India / / Akshya Saxena.

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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Saxena, Akshya,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Translation/Transnation ; 46
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505 0 0 |t Frontmatter --   |t Contents --   |t Acknowledgments --   |t Preface. On the Grounds --   |t Introduction. Vernacular English: Reading the Anglophone --   |t Chapter 1 Law: Democratic Objects in Postcolonial India, or India Demands English --   |t Chapter 2 Touch: Dalit Anglophone Writers and a Language Shared --   |t Chapter 3 Text: A Desire Called English in Indian Anglophone Literature --   |t Chapter 4 Sound: The Mother’s Voice and Anglophonic Soundscapes in Northeast India --   |t Chapter 5 Sight: Cinematic English and the Pleasures of Not Reading --   |t Coda. Radical Anglophony, or The Ethics of Attunement --   |t Notes --   |t Index 
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