Other tongues: rethinking the language debates in India
by ebrary, Inc, Iyer, Nalini, Zare, Bonnie
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Other Tongues: Rethinking the Language Debates in India explores the implications of the energetic and, at times, acrimonious public debate among Indian authors and academics over the hegemonic role of Indian writing in English. From the 1960s the debate in India has centered on…
Comparative literary studies faces new challenges today in a world marked by the migration of people, languages, ideas and texts across diverse and increasingly porous borders. The field is restricted by conventional notions of comparativism born in the era of nationalism and co…
With reference to partition of India in 1947 and its reflections.
With reference to partition of India in 1947 and its reflections.
"Postcolonial Modernity and the Indian Novel is an incisive study of how literature represents three "catastrophic" events of twenty-century India. Advancing original readings of both famous and less-known works in English and Bengali, and blending historical accounts with liter…