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Vernacular English - Reading the Anglophone in Postcolonial India (Paperback)
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Vernacular English - Reading the Anglophone in Postcolonial India (Paperback)
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How English has become a language of the people in India-one that
enables the state but also empowers protests against it Against 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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