Vernacular English: reading the Anglophone in postcolonial India
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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| Zusammenfassung: | 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 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 |
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| adam_text | CONTENTS Acknowledgments ■ ix Preface. On the Grounds · xiii chapter chapter 1 2 Introduction. Vernacular English: Reading the Anglophone i Elsewhere, or The Problem ofEnglish i Vernacular Resolutions q The Promise of the Common: Historical Routes ofEnglish in India 15 The Anglophone, or To Read What Is Not Written 20 Chapter Descriptions, or Anglophone in Five Speech Acts 25 Law: Democratic Objects in Postcolonial India, or India Demands English 29 A Language ofPaper 29 Administrative Anxieties of the Postcolonial State 32 The Alliance between Hindi and English 36 India Demands English (Anxiously) 40 Satire, or The Viewfrom Below 45 Language Ex Machina: English as an Instrument 56 Touch: Dalit Anglophone Writers and a Language Shared 60 The Dalit Writer and the English Language 60 Ambedkar, Phule, and the Goddess English of the Bloodless Revolution 69 Dalit Anglophone Poets 80 [vii]
[viii] CHAPTER 3 CHAPTER 4 CHAPTER 5 CONTENTS Hindi Dalit Writing and the Sensation of Touch 87 Reading English after Touch 96 Text: A Desire Called English in Indian Anglophone Literature 98 Caste and Representation in Indian Anglophone Literature 98 How Does a Dalit Character Sound? Reading Anand’s Untouchable 103 Performing English inAdiga’s The White Tiger ИЗ Fugitive Fictions 121 Sound: The Mother’s Voice and Anglophonic Soundscapes in Northeast India 124 Orality, or English as a Mother Tongue 124 “Indian Army Rape Us”: Political Mothers and the Indian State 13° A Language ofProtest: Mahasweta Devi and Arundhati Roy 136 Sonic English and the Aesthetics of Witness in Literaturefrom Northeast India 140 Sight: Cinematic English and the Pleasures of Not Reading 148 Seeing, Not Reading 148 Montage, or Meaning Deferred in Slumdog Millionaire 155 The Ordinariness ofEnglish in Gully Boy 164 Materiality ofEnglish in Hindi-Urdu Cinema 170 Coda. Radical Anglophony, or The Ethics of Attunement 178 Notes · 181 Index · 199
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CONTENTS Acknowledgments ■ ix Preface. On the Grounds · xiii chapter chapter 1 2 Introduction. Vernacular English: Reading the Anglophone i Elsewhere, or The Problem ofEnglish i Vernacular Resolutions q The Promise of the Common: Historical Routes ofEnglish in India 15 The Anglophone, or To Read What Is Not Written 20 Chapter Descriptions, or Anglophone in Five Speech Acts 25 Law: Democratic Objects in Postcolonial India, or India Demands English 29 A Language ofPaper 29 Administrative Anxieties of the Postcolonial State 32 The Alliance between Hindi and English 36 India Demands English (Anxiously) 40 Satire, or The Viewfrom Below 45 Language Ex Machina: English as an Instrument 56 Touch: Dalit Anglophone Writers and a Language Shared 60 The Dalit Writer and the English Language 60 Ambedkar, Phule, and the Goddess English of the Bloodless Revolution 69 Dalit Anglophone Poets 80 [vii]
[viii] CHAPTER 3 CHAPTER 4 CHAPTER 5 CONTENTS Hindi Dalit Writing and the Sensation of Touch 87 Reading English after Touch 96 Text: A Desire Called English in Indian Anglophone Literature 98 Caste and Representation in Indian Anglophone Literature 98 How Does a Dalit Character Sound? Reading Anand’s Untouchable 103 Performing English inAdiga’s The White Tiger ИЗ Fugitive Fictions 121 Sound: The Mother’s Voice and Anglophonic Soundscapes in Northeast India 124 Orality, or English as a Mother Tongue 124 “Indian Army Rape Us”: Political Mothers and the Indian State 13° A Language ofProtest: Mahasweta Devi and Arundhati Roy 136 Sonic English and the Aesthetics of Witness in Literaturefrom Northeast India 140 Sight: Cinematic English and the Pleasures of Not Reading 148 Seeing, Not Reading 148 Montage, or Meaning Deferred in Slumdog Millionaire 155 The Ordinariness ofEnglish in Gully Boy 164 Materiality ofEnglish in Hindi-Urdu Cinema 170 Coda. Radical Anglophony, or The Ethics of Attunement 178 Notes · 181 Index · 199 |
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