Skip to content
You are not logged in |Login  
     
Limit search to available items
Record:   Prev Next
Resources
More Information
Bestseller
BestsellerE-book
Author Sadana, Rashmi, 1969-

Title English Heart, Hindi Heartland : the Political Life of Literature in India.

Publication Info. Berkeley : University of California Press, 2012.

Item Status

Description 1 online resource (241 pages).
text file
Series Flash points ; 8
Flashpoints (Berkeley, Calif.) ; 8.
Contents Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Prologue: The Slush Pile; Chapter 1: Reading Delhi and Beyond; Chapter 2: Two Tales of a City; Chapter 3: In Sujan Singh Park; Chapter 4: The Two Brothers of Ansari Road; Chapter 5: At the Sahitya Akademi; Chapter 6: Across the Yamuna; Chapter 7: "A Suitable Text for a Vegetarian Audience"; Chapter 8: Indian Literature Abroad; Chapter 9: Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
Summary English Heart, Hindi Heartland examines Delhi's postcolonial literary world--its institutions, prizes, publishers, writers, and translators, and the cultural geographies of key neighborhoods--in light of colonial histories and the globalization of English. Rashmi Sadana places internationally recognized authors such as Salman Rushdie, Anita Desai, Vikram Seth, and Aravind Adiga in the context of debates within India about the politics of language and alongside other writers, including K. Satchidanandan, Shashi Deshpande, and Geetanjali Shree. Sadana undertakes an ethnographic study of literary culture that probes the connections between place, language, and text in order to show what language comes to stand for in people's lives. In so doing, she unmasks a social discourse rife with questions of authenticity and cultural politics of inclusion and exclusion. English Heart, Hindi Heartland illustrates how the notion of what is considered to be culturally and linguistically authentic not only obscures larger questions relating to caste, religious, and gender identities, but that the authenticity discourse itself is continually in flux. In order to mediate and extract cultural capital from India's complex linguistic hierarchies, literary practitioners strategically deploy a fluid set of cultural and political distinctions that Sadana calls "literary nationality." Sadana argues that English, and the way it is positioned among the other Indian languages, does not represent a fixed pole, but rather serves to change political and literary alliances among classes and castes, often in surprising ways.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-213) and index.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Indic literature (English) -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Indic literature (English)
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Publishers and publishing -- India -- History -- 20th century.
Publishers and publishing.
India.
History.
Book industries and trade -- India -- History -- 20th century.
Book industries and trade.
Politics and literature -- India -- History -- 20th century.
Politics and literature.
Postcolonialism in literature.
Postcolonialism in literature.
Postcolonialism -- India.
Postcolonialism.
Chronological Term 1900 - 1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Sadana, Rashmi. English Heart, Hindi Heartland : The Political Life of Literature in India. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2012 9780520269576
ISBN 9780520952294
0520952294
1280116722
9781280116728
9780520269576
0520269578
Standard No. 9786613521019