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Title Other tongues : rethinking the language debates in India / edited by Nalini Iyer and Bonnie Zare.

Publication Info. Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2009.

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Description 1 online resource (xxxvii, 208 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Cross/cultures ; 99
Cross/cultures ; 99.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Summary Other Tongues: Rethinking the Language Debates in India explores the implications of the energetic and, at times, acrimonious public debate among Indian authors and academics over the hegemonic role of Indian writing in English. From the 1960s the debate in India has centered on the role of the English language in perpetuating and maintaining the cultural and ideological aspects of imperialism. The debate received renewed attention following controversial claims by Salman Rushdie and V.S. Naipaul on the inferior status of contemporary Indian-language literatures. This volume¿ offers nuanced analysis of the language, audience and canon debate; ¿ provides a multivocal debate in which academics, writers and publishers are brought together in a multi-genre format (academic essay, interview, personal essay);¿ explores how translation mediates this debate and the complex choices that translation must entail. Other Tongues is the first collective study by to bring together voices from differing national, linguistic and professional contexts in an examination of the nuances of this debate over language. By creating dialogue between different stakeholders ¿ seven scholars, three writers, and three publishers from India ¿ the volume brings to the forefront underrepresented aspects of Indian literary culture.
Contents Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; CANONIZING AUTHORS, AUTHORIZING CANONS; Embattled Canons; Not Too Spicy; Code-Switching, Shape-Shifting, Asking Different Questions; One Bhasha Writer's Side of the Coin; The Last Fifty Years; A South Asian American Writer's Perspective; PERSPECTIVES FROM THE WORLD OF PUBLISHING; India; Publishing Translations; TRANSLATION AND TRANSCREATION; Translation and Globalization; Translation and the Vernacular; Real-Life Transfers; Meeting Online; Notes on the Contributors.
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Subject English language -- India.
English language.
India.
Indic literature.
Indic literature.
Indic literature (English) -- History and criticism.
Indic literature (English)
Indic literature -- History and criticism.
Indic literature -- Translations.
Translations.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Translations.
Added Author Iyer, Nalini.
Zare, Bonnie.
Other Form: Print version: Other tongues. Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2009 9789042025196
ISBN 9781441603579 (electronic book)
1441603573 (electronic book)
9042025190
9789042025196
9789401206754
9401206759
9042025190
9789042025196