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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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2022] ©2022 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Translation/Transnation ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (232 p.) :; 15 b/w illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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