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Vernacular English : reading the Anglophone in postcolonial India / Akshya Saxena.

By: Material type: Computer fileComputer filePublication details: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2022]Description: 1 online resource (xvii, 206 pages) : illustrations (black and white)ISBN:
  • 9780691223148
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 427.954
Online resources: Summary: Against a groundswell of critiques of global English, 'Vernacular English' argues that literary studies are yet to confront the true political import of the English language in the world today. A comparative study of three centuries of English literature and media in India, this book tells the story of English in India as a tale not of imperial coercion, but of a people's language in a postcolonial democracy.
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Against a groundswell of critiques of global English, 'Vernacular English' argues that literary studies are yet to confront the true political import of the English language in the world today. A comparative study of three centuries of English literature and media in India, this book tells the story of English in India as a tale not of imperial coercion, but of a people's language in a postcolonial democracy.

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