The social space of language : vernacular culture in British colonial Punjab / / Farina Mir
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| Autore: |
Mir Farina
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| Titolo: |
The social space of language : vernacular culture in British colonial Punjab / / Farina Mir
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| Pubblicazione: | Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , [2010] |
| ©2010 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (294 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 891.4/209355 |
| Soggetto topico: | Panjabi literature - 19th century - History and criticism |
| Panjabi literature - 20th century - History and criticism | |
| Literature and society - India - Punjab - History - 19th century | |
| Literature and society - India - Punjab - History - 20th century | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Punjab (India) Intellectual life 19th century |
| Punjab (India) Intellectual life 20th century | |
| Soggetto non controllato: | british colonial era |
| british india | |
| colonial dominance | |
| colonialism | |
| cultural history | |
| epic romances | |
| language | |
| late colonial india | |
| linguistic historians | |
| linguistics | |
| literary genres | |
| literary tradition | |
| moral sensibility | |
| multidisciplinary study | |
| nationalist politics | |
| north india | |
| poetics | |
| popular literature | |
| print literature | |
| punjab | |
| punjabi language | |
| punjabi stories | |
| qisse | |
| regional languages | |
| religious communal identities | |
| social history | |
| south asia | |
| symbolism | |
| vernacular culture | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Introduction -- Forging a language policy -- Punjabi print culture -- A Punjabi literary formation -- Place and personhood -- Piety and devotion -- Conclusion. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | This rich cultural history set in Punjab examines a little-studied body of popular literature to illustrate both the durability of a vernacular literary tradition and the limits of colonial dominance in British India. Farina Mir asks how qisse, a vibrant genre of epics and romances, flourished in colonial Punjab despite British efforts to marginalize the Punjabi language. She explores topics including Punjabi linguistic practices, print and performance, and the symbolic content of qisse. She finds that although the British denied Punjabi language and literature almost all forms of state patronage, the resilience of this popular genre came from its old but dynamic corpus of stories, their representations of place, and the moral sensibility that suffused them. Her multidisciplinary study reframes inquiry into cultural formations in late-colonial north India away from a focus on religious communal identities and nationalist politics and toward a widespread, ecumenical, and place-centered poetics of belonging in the region. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The social space of language |
| ISBN: | 1-282-77178-7 |
| 9786612771781 | |
| 0-520-94764-9 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910785240703321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
South Asia across the disciplines.