Description: English Heart, Hindi Heartland : The Political Life of Literature in India, Paperback by Sadana, Rashmi, ISBN 0520269578, ISBN-13 9780520269576, Brand New, Free shipping in the US 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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Book Title: English Heart, Hindi Heartland : The Political Life of Literature
Number of Pages: 240 Pages
Publication Name: English Heart, Hindi Heartland : the Political Life of Literature in India
Language: English
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication Year: 2012
Item Height: 0.6 in
Subject: Comparative Literature, Publishing, Asian / Indic, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Semiotics & Theory, Subjects & Themes / Politics, Colonialism & Post-Colonialism
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 12.8 Oz
Item Length: 9 in
Author: Rashmi Sadana
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Political Science, Language Arts & Disciplines, Social Science
Item Width: 6 in
Series: Flashpoints Ser.
Format: Trade Paperback
