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Writing India, writing English : literature, language, location / G.J.V. Prasad.
Author
Prasad, G. J. V.
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Book
Language
English
Published/Created
London ; New York : Routledge, 2011.
Description
xii, 176 pages ; 23 cm
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Firestone Library - Stacks
PR9484.3 .P73 2011
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Indic literature (English)
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History and criticism
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"The essays in this book look at the interaction between English and other Indian languages and focus on the pressure of languages on writers and on each other. Divided into two parts, the first part of the book deals with the pressure that English language has exerted, and continues to exert, in India and our ideas of connectedness as a nation in the ways in which we deal with this pressure. The essays emphasis on the emergence of the hybrid language in the Tamil cultural world because of the presence of English (and Hindi); on the politics of 'anthologisation'; and how Karnad's Tughlaq deals with the idea of the nation, looking at its historical location. The second part of the book focuses on Indian English literature and deals with how it interacts with the idea of representing the Indian nation, sometimes obsessively, seen both in poetry and novels. The book argues that the writer's location is crucial to the world of imagination, whether in the novel, poetry or drama. The world is inflected by the location of the author, and the struggle between the language dominant in that location and English is part of the creative tension that provides energy and uniqueness to writing."--Publisher's description.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [166]-170) and index.
Contents
pt. I. India, English, translation. A minute stretching into centuries : Macaulay, English and India
Translating Dalit Tamil literature into English
Tamil, Hindi, English : the new ménage à trois
Trans-creating India(s) : the nation in English translation
Karnad, Tughlaq, India
pt. II. Indian English literature and the nation. Writing India, writing English
Romance in the West : Toru Dutt, the novelist
'Food for thought' : the Tamil world of R.K. Narayan
Always in the poet's eye : Nissim Ezekiel's India
India in verse : the Indian English nation
Terrifying Tara : the angst of the family.
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ISBN
9780415693790
0415693799
OCLC
744299229
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