LEADER 04053nam 2200649Ia 450 001 9910457207903321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-280-11672-2 010 $a9786613521019 010 $a0-520-95229-4 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520952294 035 $a(CKB)2550000000084417 035 $a(EBL)860291 035 $a(OCoLC)776108966 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000703092 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11407020 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000703092 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10687196 035 $a(PQKB)10445412 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC860291 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse31110 035 $a(DE-B1597)520885 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520952294 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL860291 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10533552 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL352101 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000084417 100 $a20111102d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aEnglish heart, Hindi heartland$b[electronic resource] $ethe political life of literature in India /$fRashmi Sadana 210 $aBerkeley $cUniversity of California Press$dc2012 215 $a1 online resource (241 p.) 225 0 $aFlashPoints ;$v8 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-520-26957-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tPrologue: The Slush Pile -- $t1. Reading Delhi and Beyond -- $t2. Two Tales of a City -- $t3. In Sujan Singh Park -- $t4. The Two Brothers of Ansari Road -- $t5. At the Sahitya Akademi -- $t6. Across the Yamuna -- $t7. "A Suitable Text for a Vegetarian Audience" -- $t8. Indian Literature Abroad -- $t9. Conclusion -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aEnglish Heart, Hindi Heartland examines Delhi's postcolonial literary world-its institutions, prizes, publishers, writers, and translators, and the cultural geographies of key neighborhoods-in light of colonial histories and the globalization of English. Rashmi Sadana places internationally recognized authors such as Salman Rushdie, Anita Desai, Vikram Seth, and Aravind Adiga in the context of debates within India about the politics of language and alongside other writers, including K. Satchidanandan, Shashi Deshpande, and Geetanjali Shree. Sadana undertakes an ethnographic study of literary culture that probes the connections between place, language, and text in order to show what language comes to stand for in people's lives. In so doing, she unmasks a social discourse rife with questions of authenticity and cultural politics of inclusion and exclusion. English Heart, Hindi Heartland illustrates how the notion of what is considered to be culturally and linguistically authentic not only obscures larger questions relating to caste, religious, and gender identities, but that the authenticity discourse itself is continually in flux. In order to mediate and extract cultural capital from India's complex linguistic hierarchies, literary practitioners strategically deploy a fluid set of cultural and political distinctions that Sadana calls "literary nationality." Sadana argues that English, and the way it is positioned among the other Indian languages, does not represent a fixed pole, but rather serves to change political and literary alliances among classes and castes, often in surprising ways. 410 0$aFlashPoints 606 $aIndic literature (English)$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aPublishers and publishing$zIndia$xHistory$y20th century 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aIndic literature (English)$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aPublishers and publishing$xHistory 676 $a820.995409051 700 $aSadana$b Rashmi$f1969-$01026584 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910457207903321 996 $aEnglish heart, Hindi heartland$92441556 997 $aUNINA