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  title info:
    title: Writing India, writing English
    sub title: literature, language, location
  name:
    name part: Prasad, G. J. V.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2011
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xii, 176 pages ; 23 cm.
  abstract: 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.
  table of contents: A minute stretching into centuries: Macaulay, English and India -- Translating Dalit Tamil literature into English -- Tamil, Hindi, English: the new ménage à trois -- Trans-creating India(s): the nation in English translation -- Karnad, Tughlaq, India -- Writing India, writing English -- Romance in the West: Toru Dutt, the novelist -- 'Food for thought': the Tamil world of R. K. Narayan -- Always in the poet's eye: Nissim Ezekiel's India -- India in verse: the Indian English nation -- Terrifying Tara: the angst of the family.
  note: G.J.V. Prasad.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [166]-170) and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: a-ii---
  subject:
    topic: Indic literature (English)
    topic: History and criticism
  identifier: 9780415693790 (hbk.)
  identifier: 0415693799 (hbk.)
  record info:
    record content source: BTCTA
    record creation date: 110730
    record change date: 20151202144321.0
    record identifier: in00002734061