Language Ideologies and the Vernacular in Colonial and Postcolonial South Asia Zaidi Nishat
Language Ideologies and the Vernacular in Colonial and Postcolonial South Asia Zaidi Nishat This volume critically engages with recent formulations and debates regarding the status of regional…
Specifikacia Language Ideologies and the Vernacular in Colonial and Postcolonial South Asia Zaidi Nishat
Language Ideologies and the Vernacular in Colonial and Postcolonial South Asia Zaidi Nishat
This volume critically engages with recent formulations and debates regarding the status of regional languages of the Indian subcontinent vis--vis English. The looks into the ways vernacular community and political rhetoric are intertwined with Anglophone (national or global) positionalities, and their role in political processes.This book will be of interest to researchers, students and scholars of literary and cultural studies, Indian Writing in English, Indian It explores how language ideologies of the "vernacular" are positioned in relation to language ideologies of English in South Asia.The book probes into how we might move beyond the English-vernacular binary in India, explores what happened to "bhasha literatures" during the colonial and post-colonial periods, and how to position those literatures by the side of Indian English and international literature.
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