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Writing India, Writing English: Literature, Language, Location

Autor G. J. V. Prasad
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 31 aug 2011
The essays in this book look at the interaction between English and other Indian languages and focus on the pressure of languages on writers and on each other. Divided into two parts, the first part of the book deals with the pressure that English language has exerted, and continues to exert, in India and our ideas of connectedness as a nation in the ways in which we deal with this pressure. The essays emphasise on the emergence of the hybrid language in the Tamil cultural world because of the presence of English (and Hindi); on the politics of ‘anthologisation’; and how Karnad’s Tughlaq deals with the idea of the nation, looking at its historical location. The second part of the book focuses on Indian English literature and deals with how it interacts with the idea of representing the Indian nation, sometimes obsessively, seen both in poetry and novels. The book argues that the writer’s location is crucial to the world of imagination, whether in the novel, poetry or drama. The world is inflected by the location of the author, and the struggle between the language dominant in that location and English is part of the creative tension that provides energy and uniqueness to writing.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780415693790
ISBN-10: 0415693799
Pagini: 190
Dimensiuni: 138 x 216 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.51 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge India
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Public țintă

Postgraduate

Cuprins

Preface Part I: India, English, Translation 1. A Minute Stretching into Centuries: Macaulay, English and India 2. Translating Dalit Tamil Literature into English 3. Tamil, Hindi, English: A New Ménage à Trois 4. Trans-creating India(s): The Nation in English Translation 5. Karnad, Tughlaq, India Part II: Indian English Literature and the Nation 6. Writing India Writing English 7. Romance in the West: Toru Dutt the Novelist 8. ‘Food for Thought’: The Tamil World of R. K. Narayan 9. Always in the Poet’s Eye: Nissim Ezekiel’s India 10. India in Verse: The Indian English Nation 11. Terrifying Tara: The Angst of the Family. Bibliography. About the Author. Index

Descriere

The essays in this book lay emphasis on the interaction between English and other Indian languages, and how power relations add a degree of tension to this interaction. The book looks closely at how translation plays a major role in constructing an alternate nation and also focuses on Tamil to give a counterpoint.