1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910457207903321

Autore

Sadana Rashmi <1969->

Titolo

English heart, Hindi heartland [[electronic resource] ] : the political life of literature in India / / Rashmi Sadana

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2012

ISBN

1-280-11672-2

9786613521019

0-520-95229-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (241 p.)

Collana

FlashPoints ; ; 8

Disciplina

820.995409051

Soggetti

Indic literature (English) - 20th century - History and criticism

Publishers and publishing - India - History - 20th century

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue: The Slush Pile -- 1. Reading Delhi and Beyond -- 2. Two Tales of a City -- 3. In Sujan Singh Park -- 4. The Two Brothers of Ansari Road -- 5. At the Sahitya Akademi -- 6. Across the Yamuna -- 7. "A Suitable Text for a Vegetarian Audience" -- 8. Indian Literature Abroad -- 9. Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

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.

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Record Nr.

UNINA990004374700403321

Titolo

La presenza dell'aristotelismo padovano nella filosofia della prima modernità : atti del Colloquio internazionale in memoria di Charles B. Schmitt (Padova, 4-6 settembre 2000) / a cura di Gregorio Piaia

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Roma ; Padova, : Antenore, 2002

ISBN

88-8455-551-5

Descrizione fisica

X, 488 p. ; 22 cm

Collana

Miscellanea erudita ; 64

Disciplina

185

149.91

Locazione

FLFBC

Collocazione

185 ARIS/S 120

Lingua di pubblicazione

Molteplice

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia