04016nam 2200649Ia 450 991080712140332120200520144314.01-280-11672-297866135210190-520-95229-410.1525/9780520952294(CKB)2550000000084417(EBL)860291(OCoLC)776108966(SSID)ssj0000703092(PQKBManifestationID)11407020(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000703092(PQKBWorkID)10687196(PQKB)10445412(MiAaPQ)EBC860291(MdBmJHUP)muse31110(DE-B1597)520885(DE-B1597)9780520952294(Au-PeEL)EBL860291(CaPaEBR)ebr10533552(CaONFJC)MIL352101(EXLCZ)99255000000008441720111102d2012 uy 0engur|||||||nn|ntxtccrEnglish heart, Hindi heartland the political life of literature in India /Rashmi Sadana1st ed.Berkeley University of California Pressc20121 online resource (241 p.)FlashPoints ;8Description based upon print version of record.0-520-26957-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 -- IndexEnglish 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.FlashPointsIndic literature (English)20th centuryHistory and criticismPublishers and publishingIndiaHistory20th centuryIndic literature (English)History and criticism.Publishers and publishingHistory820.995409051Sadana Rashmi1969-1677777MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910807121403321English heart, Hindi heartland4044934UNINA